Masayoshi Son

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Year after year organizations like Forbes and Bloomberg put together lists of the world’s richest people. Today names like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos top the list. But in the late ‘90s, one man rose to prominence at lightning speed. What’s more, he broke records that have yet to be broken to this day. Masayoshi Son grew his wealth after found his successful business Softbank. The company is a leader in investing to this day. He is most known for his off-the-wall personality and risky investment strategy. This is the fascinating story of one of the wildest investors in history. Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://www.patreon.com/tillnpodcast Episode Link: https://tilln.com/masa Want to Support TILLN: https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Advertise with us: https://bit.ly/3FdZirY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard of Masayoshi's son?
0:04.5	What?
0:05.3	Have you ever heard of Masayoshi's son?
0:07.0	Is this just Yoshi's full name?
0:09.6	No, it's this kid.
0:11.0	Masayoshi's son.
0:13.4	Oh, okay.
0:16.4	Masa means father.
0:18.2	Masayoshi's son.
0:19.1	Have you ever heard of him?
0:19.7	No.
0:21.6	So this guy,
0:23.5	he is known for a couple things.
0:26.9	From Ireland.
0:28.9	He's known for a couple of things.
0:30.9	One, he's number three of Japan's richest people.
0:36.4	He's the third richest person in Japanapan there's the normal way to say
0:39.0	that i don't know why yeah number three on the richest people list by he's the third richest
0:46.6	person in japan on what list though is it just like by like you know who who who says you know
0:53.4	you're opening up a bag of worms.
0:56.0	Am I?
0:56.9	Well, yeah, it is, it is, it's difficult to calculate this because most really rich people have
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