sūn zhèng yì孙正义zhòng huí重回yà zhōu亚洲shǒu fù首富：tóu zī投资dà wáng大王de的qǐ起yǔ与luò落
On June 1, shares of Japan’s SoftBank Group rose sharply, surpassing Toyota Motor.
Because of the stock price increase, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s personal wealth exceeded $100 billion, making him Asia’s richest person again.
Since the beginning of this year, SoftBank’s stock price has risen by a total of 80%.
In the investment world, many people see Masayoshi Son as a “crazy investor.”
He likes to identify the direction of the future and then boldly invest large amounts of money.
His most famous investment was made in 2000.
At that time, Alibaba in China had just been founded and was still a very small company.
But after meeting Jack Ma, Masayoshi Son strongly believed in his ability and decided to invest $20 million.
Later, when Alibaba went public, this investment earned him hundreds of times his money and made him one of the world’s top investors.
However, there is no permanent winner in investing.
A few years ago, Masayoshi Son invested large sums of money in some tech companies, such as WeWork in the United States.
However, this company not only failed to make money, but eventually went bankrupt.
This caused SoftBank to lose a great deal of money in 2021 and 2022, and the company faced huge difficulties.
To get through the crisis, Masayoshi Son even had to sell Alibaba shares.
After experiencing failure, Masayoshi Son did not give up.
In the past two years, he has identified new opportunities and placed huge bets on artificial intelligence.
As AI technology has developed rapidly around the world, SoftBank has not only recovered the money it lost, but its profits have also increased sharply, which has helped Masayoshi Son regain the title of “Asia’s richest person.”
Masayoshi Son’s investment story is like a movie, with great success as well as painful failure.
Now, he has once again seized the opportunity of the AI era.
In the future, whether he can continue to succeed will be answered by time.