Extraordinary ... a privileged boardroomtable view of the gilded age of techutopianism Sunday TimesThe real story behind the mercurial Masayoshi Son, one of the worlds most consequential investors, who has three times lost and made tens of billions of dollarsJapans Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his mediatech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, Chinas 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 startups, fuelling the biggest boom Silicon Valley has ever seen. This book takes you on Sons wild ride, from his birthplace in a Korean slum in postwar Japan to the modernday temples of power. It speeds through Donald Trumps golden skyscraper in Manhattan, the royal palaces of Riyadh and the throne rooms of Chinas Marxist rulers all places where Son has deployed his unique blend of financial engineering and crazy risktaking. Sons story captures a 25 yearspan of hyperglobalisation in which money, technologies and ideas flowed freely. From the launch of the microchip to the advent of artificial intelligence, he has ridden the technological wave which has created extraordinary wealth and economic change. His topsyturvy business career is testimony to the power of optimism, daring to dream, ever in search of the Next Big Thing. As an ethnic Korean in Japan, Son has overcome...

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