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Gambling man : the secret story of the world's greatest disruptor, Masayoshi Son / Lionel Barber.
Lippincott Library HG172.S625 B37 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barber, Lionel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Son, Masayoshi, 1957-.
- Son, Masayoshi.
- Son, Masayoshi, 1957---Family.
- Sofutobanku Kabushiki Kaisha.
- Capitalists and financiers--Japan--Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Businesspeople--Japan--Biography.
- Businesspeople.
- Koreans--Japan--Biography.
- Koreans.
- Entrepreneurship--Japan.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Computer software industry--Japan.
- Computer software industry.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First One Signal Publishers / Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : One Signal Publishers / Atria Books, 2025.
- Summary:
- "As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have--now more than ever--come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son. In Gambling Man, the first Western biography of Son, the self-professed unicorn hunter, we go behind the scenes of the world's most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond to see how Son's firm SoftBank has defied conventional wisdom and imposing odds to push global tech and commerce into the future. From the dizzying highs of Uber, DoorDash, and Slack to the epic lows of WeWork and tech-infused dogwalking app Wag Son and SoftBank have been at the center of cutting-edge capitalism's absolute peaks and valleys. In the process, Son, son of a pachinko kingpin who grew up in a slum in Japan, has been a hero, a villain, and even a meme-ified hero to the internet tech- and finance-bro set all at once"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2021 by Allen Lane"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781668070741
- 166807074X
- OCLC:
- 1484651429
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