Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur who founded SoftBank and serves as chairman of Arm Holdings in the United Kingdom. Softbank is a well-known Japanese multinational holding corporation with interests in broadband, fixed-line telecommunications, e-commerce, the internet, technological services, finance, media and marketing, and semiconductor design, among other things.

Masayoshi Son invests billions in some of Silicon Valley's greatest innovative startups, including Uber, WeWork, Slack, and DoorDash, through SoftBank and his more than $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund. According to Bloomberg, SoftBank owns majority shares in over 1,000 companies, including Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Mr. Son will be investing in and conducting IPOs for many more firms shortly. He predicts that in the following year, 20 companies in SoftBank's portfolio of roughly 160 firms will go public. Grab, ByteDance, and Didi Chuxing are among the exchanges that the public will be most interested in.

The firm was also ranked 36th on Forbes' Global 2000 list. Masayoshi Son's net worth is projected to be $45.4 billion as of October 16, 2021, making him one of Japan's wealthiest people and Asia's 7th richest. According to Forbes, Masayoshi is also the 45th most powerful person in the world.

Net worth: US $45.4 billion

Country: Japan