Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son

About the book

Lionel Barber traces the rise of SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son and the enormous risks behind his influence on global technology. The biography follows Son from his childhood in Japan into financial and political circles around the world, examining investments in companies including Uber, Slack, and WeWork. Interviews and reporting explore his ambition, decision-making, spectacular successes, and costly failures as a lens on modern capitalism.

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