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give a man a fish and you feed him for a day give a man a100 billion dollar in investment capital and you create one of the most unpredictable and determined businessmen of our age masay Yoshi son is Japan's most unpredictable investor gambling on investments that are clearly risky and always coming out on top one way or another in this video we'll be getting to know masayoshi son the craziest investor of all time stick around until the end and you might just find some meaning in his insane Ked who is masayoshi son masayoshi son was born on August 11th 1957 an ethnic Korean born and living in Japan moshi's early life in Japan was anything but comfortable forget $1 billion he barely even had $10 to his name at times taking odd jobs here and there as a working student masayoshi started dreaming of a life where he wouldn't have to keep breaking his back for minimum wage all the time and so he did inspired by Japanese entrepreneur Den fueta he decided to pursue an education in America where he would study Computer Engineering and business at the University of California Berkeley but not without promising his mother that he'd be back home right after he graduates now masayoshi son was nowhere near amazing when it came to academics but what he lacked for in smarts he made up for an instinct and pure unadulterated determination studying in Japan didn't make the money problems go away and now he was juggling both his education and his finances now most entrepreneurs would often urge you to save up and invest in yourself focus on your studies and gain experience as effective as this advice may be masayoshi wasn't your typical businessman to make money masayoshi son began inventing various electronics and gadgets ranging from the mundane to the extremely complicated with the help of some experts in their field masayoshi son was able to create an padon a pocket electronic translator the first of its kind at the time but inventing is the easy part it's selling the patent that made it difficult after moving from door to door selling his patent sharp Corporation eventually bought moshi's invention for $1.7 million a huge sum of money for a college student but pocket change for him in the years to come after graduating from Berkeley and getting his degree he fulfilled his promise and moved back to Japan immediately it's here where his vision for the future would grow even stronger soft Bank Legacy Moshi son is has always been a forward thinker his time as an inventor instilled a problem-solving mentality if he wanted to make a lot of money he needed to look to inventions that could solve many problems and no other product had more promise than the computer masayoshi knew in his gut the computers and the internet were going to be the next big thing when it comes to society and he wanted to jump on it straight away that's when masi Yoshi established the SoftBank group Corporation in September 1981 in its early years SoftBank was merely a PC distribution service that was banking on the world's interest and demand and personal computers what most of you may not know though is that owning a PC was very niche in its early years and so Moshi had a very Rocky start there wasn't enough demand for the product that he was selling and his colleagues were urging him to jump ship because he was basically throwing his money away despite all the warnings Moshi remained Head Strong he established himself as a large player in Japanese Electronics an investment that truly paid off when people finally realized the value of computers but Distributing Hardware wasn't the only focus of the company the company also invested in multiple internet-based companies in the early 2000s while online businesses may be bread and butter these days back in the 2000s it caused an entire market crash online businesses were valuing themselves higher than they were actually valued causing most of softbank's Investments to plummet keyword most that's because one of masay Yoshi's biggest Investments would be on the website alib Baba owned by Jack ma a company that is now providing a steady stream of profit to SoftBank because of its mainstream success Moshi remembers putting a lot of faith into Jack Ma just because of a gut feeling and a look in Jack Ma's eye it was obvious that masayoshi had a knack for discovering success right before it happened and he decided to profit off his skills Vision fund masayoshi son wanted to use his talent for the benefit of Hamman as stockholders but to do this he knew that he needed more money soft Bank itself was raking in quite a few big bucks but as big of a dreamer masayoshi son is he wanted more and so he turned to one of his richest and Powerful business partners in the world Muhammad bin Salman otherwise known as the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in future interviews masayoshi would go on to say that he closed the $45 billion investment deal after just 45 minutes of negotiations that's $1 billion per minute couple this $45 million investment with $ 33.1 billion from soft Banks owned pockets and a large sum from both Saudi Arabia and fellow Tech investors and you get the fabled $100 billion investment fund aptly named The Vision fund SoftBank officially launched the vision Fund in October 2016 with a hundred billion to invest however they liked in the very first years of the vision funds operation its portfolio contained a total of 88 companies of course there are the big players like apple and Microsoft on the list both companies are sure to be profitable no matter what the situation but one of the industries that SoftBank was very interested in was the travel industry pouring significant resources and ride hailing apps like uber grab and D while the Investments itself have been profitable and going according to moshi's plans there are some Investments That Moshi couldn't account for portfolio flops being a fund that's being closely monitored by businessmen and shareholders Moshi son's investment blunders are just as famous as his investment wins take for example his Devotion to ride hailing apps like uber grab and Dei although the Investments themselves were highly profitable at the time no one could have seen the big change coming Corona virus during the pandemic most ride hailing apps were brought to a grinding halt in fact during the pandemic SoftBank was estimated to have lost a nauseating 14 billion dollar in a single year the fund was officially running low and what did masayoshi son do he stuck with it and because of his tenacity when it came to his Investments the fund is now doing better than ever before what happens when tenacity just doesn't cut it one glaring example of Moshi son's blind enthusiasm can be found in their involvement with we workor established in 2017 Wei work was a company that wanted to establish and sell shared workspaces for those in need they cafes with free Wi-Fi but bigger now on paper this may sound great but what really convinced masayoshi son was that Glitter in the CEO's eyes and oh boy was he wrong masayoshi son invested a whopping total of 13.9 billion eventually earning an 80% stake in the company 9.5 of which was invested just to stop Wei work from failing this was the main flaw of having too much money and why Moshi son was called more Vin and insane Gambler than an investor Moshi son would take the immense wealth of the vision fund and pump it into small startup companies that barely knew what they were doing companies like oo and zoom two Tech startups that dreamt big got consumed by Soft bank's initial investment and crashed and burned now normally this Insight would discourage any budding investor to take risks but again masayoshi son is not your normal investor the future today softbank's Vision fund has Diversified its portfolio even more stepping away from ride hailing apps and now taking larger bites of the AI industry it seems Mas Yoshi son's new vision is the growth of AI within our industry a fate which feels like an inevitability at this point whether that's a good or bad thing depends on who you ask but masayoshi is definitely Allin while his previous failures with tech startups have left a bad taste in his mouth Moshi son still stands undeterred and continues to invest in Tech startups that have the potential to go big so if the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again expecting different outcomes then Moshi son is indeed the craziest investor of all time
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