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Meet the oddest of the oddball billionaires
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son may have made and lost more money than anyone alive. It’s unlikely that he’s finished yet.
Adrian WooldridgeIn 2019, Elliott Management, an activist investment fund which had built up a 3 per cent stake in SoftBank, demanded a meeting with the company’s founder and chief executive, Masayoshi Son.
Elliott complained that the company’s governance was such a mess that the stock was trading at least 50 per cent below net asset or “fair” value – the board was tame, the corporate structure was overcomplicated, and “transparency” was not even a concept. Other business titans such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg had bowed down before the god of good corporate governance. Why not Masa Son?
Washington Post
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