A SoftBank bailout of WeWork cost $9.5 billion in 2019 ... Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Masayoshi Son' by Lionel Barber is published by Allen Lane on October 3 in the UK, and Atria/One Signal ...

The Japanese firm led Masayoshi Son is going all in on AI. Its bets on the technology could have a lasting impact on its ...

Tech investing heavyweight Masayoshi Son offered a gift to ... billion through the Vision Fund and other sources. Son’s ...

Masayoshi Son is the CEO and founder of tech and telecommunications ... Softbank was the biggest investor in WeWork, losing more than $4.7 billion after the coworking company's failed IPO.

How did WeWork's fortunes plummet? WeWork's dramatic fall followed lavish predictions about its prospects from SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son. WeWork first tried to launch an IPO with Neumann as ...

The SoftBank Vision Fund lost a total of just over $14 billion on its WeWork bet. Masayoshi Son's SoftBank made more in Arm's after-hours trading on Wednesday than the total amount the company ...

While some of the featured leaders were ones you’d expect—cabinet nominees, congressional leaders, megadonor Elon Musk—at least one was a surprise: Masayoshi Son, the Japanese billionaire ...

TORONTO, April 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The investment giant behind WeWork isn’t afraid to make big, questionable-seeming bets. At the very least, though, SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son can say ...

When Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman first met each other in ... including $14.2bn on Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, which eventually tumbled into bankruptcy. At one point, some of Son ...

Masayoshi Son is making a huge bet on AI ... past decade apologizing for losses and missteps. A disastrous bet on WeWork sparked an apology. And billions of dollars in losses in his Vision ...