Masayoshi Son — CEO, SoftBank Group

**Masayoshi Son** is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of **SoftBank Group Corp**, the Japanese multinational conglomerate and investment firm. He created the **Vision Fund** (initially $100B, the largest technology investment fund in history), which reshaped global venture capital by writing checks of $100M-$10B into companies like Uber, WeWork, DoorDash, and ARM. Born in Japan to ethnic Korean parents, he was deeply influenced by reading about the US semiconductor revolution and built SoftBank from a software distribution company into one of the world's most powerful technology conglomerates.