SoftBank’s $100 Billion Vision Fund Is Run by These 10 Men
Masayoshi Son has shaken up Silicon Valley with an unprecedented $100 billion fund that’s buying big stakes in fast-growing technology companies. Here’s who decides where that money should go.
Masayoshi Son
Photographer: Yoshio Tsunoda/AFLO/Zuma PressIn 2016, SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son shook up Sand Hill Road when he announced he was raising a $100 billion fund to make investments in fast-growing technology companies. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Son will eventually go even bigger. He plans to raise $100 billion for a new fund every few years, investing about $50 billion a year in startups.
That arguably gives the Tokyo-based Son, 61, more power in Silicon Valley than any venture capitalist—and has turned his nine managing partners, many of them plucked from the world of banking, into tech kingmakers.