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“From then on, Masa was in the business of trying to repeat the Yahoo! formula: find a cutting-edge internet business in the US, then import the idea to Japan on his terms. The process would gradually be expanded into a cycle that fed SoftBank’s growth: attract leading foreign partners into joint ventures; own majority control of those ventures; eventually take the units public; use the proceeds to do more such deals. It was a push-me, pull-you approach: cultivating US tech executives while playing on Japanese fears of falling behind the West.”
― Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
― Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
“Thomas Edison once declared that vision without execution is hallucination.”
― Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
― Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son
“Masa loved to surround himself with young talent. They were his samurai, loyal almost to a fault. SoftBank was a modern Japanese company, but women very rarely made it into Masa’s inner circle, apart from the accountant Kimiwada.”
― Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
― Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son
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