How a Pig Farmer Became The World's Richest Man... (For a Few Days)

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Masayoshi Son is the billionaire CEO of ‘SoftBank’, a technology investment firm with such a… unique… way of operating that it has reshaped business, not only in Japan but across the world.

Its portfolio includes over 80 companies, including the likes of Uber, NVIDIA and Boston Dynamics. [2]

Anytime ‘SoftBank’ appears on a start-ups board of investors, you know it’s going to be big one day, whether it really deserves it or not…

Today Masayoshi Son is unfortunately best known for the humiliating downfall of ‘WeWork’. Something that his critics say is proof that Masayoshi Son’s talent for spotting innovation is obsolete.

But the man behind one of the most influential investment funds in the world, worked his way up from the most humble of origins.

His family was dirt poor in a county that didn’t even recognize him as a citizen until he was a massively successful businessman.

You don’t go from a pig farmer living on the fringes of the law, to one of the world’s most influential billionaires without at least a few tricks that are worth learning something from.

He once raised $45B worth of investment in a single meeting. But is that skill so impressive when you blow it on risky investments like pizza-making robots and experimental kindergartens?

Masayoshi was only 16, yet was captivated by the wisdom inside. He was desperate to meet the genius author so he did everything he could to meet him. [6]

He must have called the guy’s assistants a hundred times. All he got was a firm no and a lengthy telephone bill.

So he changed plan.

The young buck flew into Tokyo to prove that he was serious about meeting him.

Finally, he got 15 whole minutes with the busy businessman, which ended up being one of the most defining moments in Masayoshi Son’s entire career.

He asked the McDonald’s master what business a young man like him should get into.

The answer? Don’t look to the past. Look to future industries. Look for the place where there is growth.

Go into computer technology.

So he did. It’s time to learn how history works as we track the rise and falls of ‘the life story of Masayoshi Son’.

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