Gambling man : the wild ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son
Barber, Lionel2024
Book
Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world's least known but most consequential investors. Japan's Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China's internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted with Steve Jobs to turn the iPhone into a wonder product; and financed hundreds of tech start-ups, fuelling the biggest boom Silicon Valley has ever seen. This book takes you on Son's wild ride, from his birthplace in a Korean slum in post-war Japan to the modern-day temples of power. It speeds through Donald Trump's golden skyscraper in Manhattan, the royal palaces of Riyadh and the throne rooms of China's Marxist rulers; all places where Son has deployed his unique blend of financial engineering and crazy risk-taking.
Main title:
Gambling man : the wild ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son / Lionel Barber.
Author:
Barber, Lionel, author
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
xviii, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241582725 (hardback)
Dewey class:
388.092B/SON
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2289139