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	TIME Digital -- Cyber Elite - MASAYOSHI SON
		Son's voracious investing and visible role as head of Japan's No. 1 software distributor often draw more suspicion than praise in the country's hierarchical business culture.
		Son made his first $1 million before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley and founded Softbank at age 23.
		Son dropped 13 spots on our list this year because he is riding out Japan's economic storm on the back of a company that has been slow to adopt new standards of software distribution.
	www.time.com /time/digital/cyberelite/17.html (251 words)

	Masayoshi Son - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Masayoshi Son (Japanese: 孫正義, Son Masayoshi; Korean hangul: 손정의; revised: Son Jeongeui; McCune-Reischauer: Son Chŏngŭi; born August 11, 1957 in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, Japan) is a third generation Korean-Japanese and the founder and current chief executive officer of Softbank Capital, and the chief executive officer of Vodafone K. (which will be renamed later in 2006).
		To compound problems, Son was hospitalized by hepatitis from 1984 to mid-1987.
		Masayoshi Son is the CEO (Representative Director) of Vodafone K. edit]
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masayoshi_Son (890 words)

	Softbank Honcho Masayoshi Son: Son Also Rises 1/3 \| Asian American Business \| GOLDSEA
		Son's rise from the ashes is an excellent guage of how the internet itself is faring because few on the planet have lashed themselves to the internet as completely as Masayoshi Son.
		Masayoshi Son was born August 11, 1957 in Tosu on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu.
		Masayoshi's interest in business was sparked at an early age by a father who owned a small business.
	goldsea.com /Business/Son/son.html (697 words)

	Softbank Honcho Masayoshi Son: Son Also Rises 3/3 \| Asian American Business \| GOLDSEA
		Masayoshi Son was a demanding taskmaster with goals that often had the ring of opium dreams rather than rational business thinking.
		Masayoshi Son was determined to be its broadband messiah, even if it meant taking on the company that owned the phone connections to every Japanese home and office.
		Masayoshi Son still sees the endless possibilities that beguiled him lo those thirty years ago when he first laid eyes on that photo of the wonderful microchip.
	goldsea.com /Business/Son/son3.html (1504 words)

	Salon \| The $4 billion warehouse
		Son was finally being accepted as what he wanted to be: a true Net mogul.
		And the point, ultimately, Son claimed, was that the top companies of the Net generation would have a market value 10 times that of their predecessors.
		I could not help thinking of Masayoshi Son earlier this month when three investors -- Son's Softbank, plus the investment bank Goldman Sachs and the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital -- let it be known that they had paid $275 million for 6.48 percent of the stock in Webvan.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/1999/08/02/webvan/print.html (1580 words)

	Softbank Honcho Masayoshi Son: Son Also Rises 2/3 \| Asian American Business \| GOLDSEA
		Son began renting booths at trade shows in an effort to persuade Japanese software makers and publishers to let Softbank distribute their products.
		When Masayoshi applied for citizenship, he was able to point to his wife and argue that since “Son” was a surname belonging to a Japanese by birth, it was in fact a Japanese surname and he shouldn't have to change his name.
		Masayoshi Son became a Japanese citizen before the birth of his two daughters, ensuring that they too would be Japanese citizens.
	goldsea.com /Business/Son/son2.html (878 words)

	CNN.com - Softbank, Cisco natural partners - January 26, 2001
		Son has spent much of the last decade stitching together a web of alliances and investments that he believes positions Softbank to make the most of the Internet's next great leap forward.
		Son's goal is to build a netbatsu - a group of companies that mixes the infinite reach of the Internet with the best features of the zaibatsu, the industrial conglomerates that dominated Japanese commerce in the prewar era.
		Son set up Softbank in Japan in 1981 as an importer and distributor of computer software, but it was not until the 1990s that he began to be noticed for a series of high-profile acquisitions, including the Comdex computer trade show and the Ziff-Davis computer magazines.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/24/sonprofile.business (507 words)

	The Masayoshi Son Story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Masayoshi Son is by far one of the most dynamic CEO's in the history of the Internet.
		Son is clearly comfortable with numbers, a testimony to his economics background, once said in an interview that he can lay claim to owning a significant interest in companies that comprise 25 percent of the entire Internet !
		Son began taking initiative early in life and at the age of 16 moved from Japan to California to learn English.
	www.hort.ws /hortexch/mogul.html (2055 words)

	CNN.com - Softbank's Son still optimistic - January 30, 2001
		Son, who founded Softbank in 1981 in Tokyo as a computer software importer, told CNN's Biz Asia program that the Softbank group was "getting profitable very quickly".
		Son said he could not reveal the names of the fund's target companies, but promised it would be an aggressive investor.
		Son said that consumer trust was a prerequisite for a financial services group, so Softbank needed "established business names".
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/30/softbank.business (412 words)

	Staking His Claim
		On the home front, Son last year persuaded Frank Zarb, chairman and CEO of the Nasdaq, to join with Softbank and the Osaka Securities Exchange to establish Nasdaq Japan, which begins operations in June.
		Son made his first million while a student at UC Berkeley, importing Japanese arcade games to campus.
		The grandson of Korean immigrants, Son revels in the role of maverick businessman.
	www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,14286,00.html (593 words)

	SEC Filing - Yahoo! Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Son, nor, to the best knowledge and belief of SBH, Softbank and MAC, any of their respective executive officers or directors, has any other plan or proposal which relates to or would result in any of the actions set forth in parts (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D.
		Son through SBH, is based on the number of shares of Common Stock as reported in the Issuer's Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 17, 1998 and which is attached as an exhibit hereto and is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 5.
		Son, any of their respective directors or executive officers, is a party to any other contract, arrangement, understanding or relationship with respect to any securities of the Issuer.
	yhoo.client.shareholder.com /EdgarDetail.cfm?CompanyID=YHOO&CIK=1011006&FID=891836-98-517&SID=98-00 (7071 words)

	Wired 11.08: Fat Pipe Dream
		For Son to benefit from such a seismic shift in telecom, he must first succeed with a company quite different from its namesake.
		As a Korean growing up on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, Masayoshi Son was a frequent target of playground bigotry, despite his family's adoption of a Japanese surname, Yasumoto.
		Another handle Son picked up was "the Bill Gates of Japan." His personal wealth was estimated at $76 billion in 2000, when he breathed down the neck of Paul Allen on the Forbes 400.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.08/pipedream_pr.html (2463 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| The Year \| Newsmakers: Son Masayoshi \| 12/31/99
		This year, "Masa" Son shifted into hyperdrive and adjusted his Internet focus from the U.S. to his homeland (the diminutive Son is Korean by heritage - he chose his Korean surname rather than use the Japanese Yasumoto adopted by his immigrant parents, who ran a small-town pachinko parlor on the island of Kyushu).
		Son judged that Asia as it recovered from recession was poised to discover the Internet and the information economy.
		Son's investment powerhouse is also part of a consortium bidding to buy Nippon Credit Bank, a push into online banking that smacks of payback.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1231/year.son.html (1051 words)

	Softbank Masayoshi Son Japan Satellite TV Revolution
		If 39 year old Masayoshi Son were a surfer, you'd probably see him happily cresting the summit of 20 meter tsunami waves.
		Son was one of the first of his generation to foresee the oncoming digital revolution and struck quickly when, as an undergraduate at Berkeley, he patented a multi-lingual pocket translator which was to become the origin of Sharp Corporation's successful Wizard product series.
		Last November Son astonished Japan's media and business industries by entering into a joint venture with Rupert Murdoch to launch J Sky B, sowing the seeds of a digital broadcasting war with DirecTV, a competing digital satellite TV service to be launched this year in Japan.
	www.spacedaily.com /spacenet/text/sb-a.html (3068 words)

	"I Have Made The Highest Returns From Internet Investments:" Masayoshi Son \| ContentSutra (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An interview with Masayoshi Son, President and CEO of SoftBank Corp.
		Masayoshi Son is the original maverick of the internet space.
		Son was in India recently to rope in the country's leading TV channels to his TV Bank project.
	www.contentsutra.com /i-have-made-the-highest-returns-from-internet-investments-masayoshi-son (741 words)

	Masayoshi Son
		Since 1995, Son's Softbank Corp. has made perhaps the savviest venture-capital bets of all time by taking equity stakes in what are now the hottest sites on the Web.
		In what might be the model for global expansion of e-commerce, Son is binding together his 100-plus confederation of companies into a cyber-conglomerate that will expand into Asia and Europe.
		Son is an ethnic Korean who suffered ridicule and once had to beg for startup financing from Tokyo lenders.
	www.businessweek.com /1999/99_39/b3648022.htm (598 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Power 50 \| 9. Masayoshi Son \| 2001
		Masayoshi Son's well-publicized dream of building a globe-spanning Internet zaibatsu seems a bit too optimistic these days.
		A consummate dealmaker and showman, Son may have lost some of his cachet as the man to see to get a tech venture off the ground.
		Despite recent setbacks that make him less sought after as an Internet visionary, Son says he controls $3 billion - profits from the boom years - that he is ready to invest in another 100 companies now that valuations are cheap.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/features/power50.2001/p09.html (375 words)

	News @ Cisco: Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son Joins Cisco Systems Board
		Son invented and patented a multilingual pocket translator that he sold to Sharp Corporation and that became the prototype of Sharp's successful Wizard series.
		Son replaces Carol Bartz, president, CEO and chairman of Autodesk, Inc. on Cisco's board.
		Other members of Cisco's board, in addition to Chambers and Son, are John Morgridge, Cisco board chairman; Donald Valentine, partner at Sequoia Capital; Michael Frankel, vice president of SRI International; James Gibbons, dean of engineering at Stanford University; David Ring, former Cisco vice president of manufacturing; and Robert Puette, president and CEO of NetFrame Systems.
	newsroom.cisco.com /dlls/1995/corp_080395.html (404 words)

	USATODAY.com - Softbank says data on 4.52 mln subscribers leaked (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Son said the breach of security came from Softbank BB, the subsidiary that manages the business and of which he is also CEO.
		Son also said the company has retained a security firm to help prevent hacking from the outside.
		Softbank also said its Chief Executive Masayoshi Son will have his Softbank salary cut by 50% for six months to take responsibility for the incident.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/world/2004-02-27-softbank-leaks_x.htm (536 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists
		Softbank is the fifth-worst performer among Nikkei 225 stocks this year, suggesting Son has lost some of the magic with which he used to woo investors.
		Son is regarded for his wealth -- he's ranked 122nd on Forbes'; billionaire list -- and for creating Japan's No.2 provider of high-speed Web access.
		That episode, in June 1996, had Son working with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy a 21.4 percent stake in TV Asahi Corp. Likewise, Horie took a stake in Nippon Broadcasting, presumably with the bigger target of Fuji TV in his sights.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000039&sid=a5BeUpyVvkX0&refer=columnist_pesek (820 words)

	SI - readmsg.aspx msgid=13010889
		They were here to absorb every precious syllable from the mouth of Masayoshi Son, 42, founder of Softbank Corp. and longtime evangelist for the Way of the Web.
		Son's basic game plan is to import the most successful U.S. Web companies, set them up in Japan, and take them public.
		Son invested early in promising U.S. Internet companies, such as Yahoo!, E*Trade, and E-Loan, and is now using them as vehicles to expand into Europe, Asia, and soon, South America.
	www.siliconinvestor.com /readmsg.aspx?msgid=13010889 (3264 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide
		Son's Softbank Investment Corp. yesterday agreed to borrow a 14 percent stake in Fuji Television Network Inc. from Nippon Broadcasting System Inc., a takeover target of 32 year-old Horie.
		Horie and Son, 47, graduated from the same high school in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, and the Livedoor founder has said Son is one of his models.
		Son was ranked Japan's eighth-richest person in a March 11 Forbes Magazine survey, with a net worth of $4.3 billion gained largely through investments in Internet companies.
	quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aTOO2ifICRrA&refer=home (560 words)

	Nobody's native Son \| CNET News.com
		Son-san, as associates call him, has a self-effacing manner that belies a toughness developed as a son of Korean parents growing up in Japan, where racial prejudice against Koreans is still widespread.
		Word inside Son's U.S. acquisitions is that he's an easy taskmaster, at least for the first year.
		Since most of his purchases are less than a year old, what happens after the honeymoon isn't clear, but the debt he's assumed to make those acquisitions will force him to squeeze profits out of mature properties.
	news.com.com /2009-1082-233050.html (583 words)

	Babson College - Masayoshi Son
		Masayoshi Son is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Softbank Corporation, Japan’s largest distributor of software and systems hardware, and Japan’s largest publisher of computer magazines and books.
		The innovative flare that is characteristic of Son is the basis of Softbank’s success.
		In addition to the multifaceted role Son has at Softbank, he also serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Inc., the leading global supplier of enterprise networks.
	www3.babson.edu /ESHIP/outreach-events/Masayoshi-Son.cfm (270 words)

	RedOrbit - Technology - Softbank's Son Proposes Plan to Promote Optical Fiber Network (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tokyo, Feb. 1 (Jiji Press)--Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son on Wednesday proposed facilitating the introduction of optical fiber subscriber lines in Japan with funds raised through the issuance of government-guaranteed bonds.
		Son advanced the proposal at a meeting of communications carriers that was hosted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
		Under his proposal, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. group would transfer management of 60 million subscriber lines across Japan to a new company to be jointly established by communications carriers.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/377211/softbanks_son_proposes_plan_to_promote_optical_fiber_network/index.html?source=r_technology (296 words)

	Softbank - the Internet Zaibatsu ~ gate39.com: a webzine on Japan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meet Masayoshi Son, Japan's answer to Bill Gates and CEO of Softbank Corp.
		Son wants to bring American style e-commerce and Internet profits to Japan, and is doing so in a big way with his self-proclaimed "Internet Zaibatsu" Softbank Corporation.
		Son and Softbank are using this classic Japanese holding company model to gain large shares of the Japanese Internet market.
	www.gate39.com /business/softbank.aspx (771 words)

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