Masayoshi Son
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SoftBank's founder — a career of all-in bets, now all on AI.
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Son bought Arm in 2016 calling it his 'crystal ball,' survived the Vision Fund drawdowns, and returned as the AI era's biggest single risk-taker: leading OpenAI's record round, co-chairing Stargate, acquiring Ampere and Graphcore. His stated ambition — artificial superintelligence within a decade — is corporate strategy, not metaphor.
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