Masa first encountered Steve Jobs in the mid-1980s at the annual Comdex trade fair in Las Vegas. Sometime in the summer of ...

The businessman remains an enigma even at the end of Lionel Barber’s book, but that doesn’t take away from this incredible ...

Lionel Barber is the former editor of the Financial Times. As editor, he interviewed many of the world’s leaders in business and politics, including U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, ...

Listen and subscribe to Opening Bid on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you find your favorite podcasts. The incoming Trump administration is feeling the warm embrace of Big Tech.

Masayoshi Son is the bold Japanese entrepreneur who founded SoftBank Group in 1981, but he and SoftBank are far better known for their ambitious bets on other companies. Son’s most famous invest ...

Mitsunori’s son, Masayoshi, was born in the shack in 1957. Decades later he would wake in the night, haunted by the smell of coal smoke and pigshit. Mitsunori would become wealthy, clawing his way ...