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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son floats idea of US-Japan sovereign wealth fund

May 25, 2025 by DON

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has floated the idea of creating a joint US-Japan sovereign wealth fund to make large-scale investments in tech and infrastructure across the US. The idea has been raised at … Read more

AI and Trump 2.0 propel SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son back into the spotlight

April 2, 2025 by DON

The first days of the second Trump administration offered the newly elected president a chance to share the spotlight with some of his most important allies. 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 tech investor. The … Read more

Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son join Trump to announce massive $500 billion Stargate project with the SoftBank CEO as chairman

January 22, 2025 by DON

Masayoshi Son (L), Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, Larry Ellison (C), Executive Charmain Oracle and Sam Altman (R), CEO of Open AI listen to US President Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images

Masayoshi Son Bet Billions on the iPhone—3 Years Before It Existed

January 16, 2025 by DON

Ellison’s home was in fact more like a village, a compound of intricately fashioned wooden houses modeled after a Japanese emperor’s palace. The 23-acre estate took almost a decade to design and build, including a lake and a waterfall operated by an on-off switch. All the buildings were constructed without nails and had mud-plastered walls … Read more