world: This series explores those who left their imprint along the way, according to The Japan Times. There's a well known anecdote about Masayoshi Son, the maverick billionaire founder and chief executive of Soft Bank Group Corp. and the man behind the world's largest technology investment fund. ; Back in 1981, a 24-year-old Son had launched a software distribution startup with two part-time employees in a cramped office in Fukuoka. In Heisei, Japan was roiled by economic excess and stagnation, as well as a struggle for political and social reform. Lore has it that one morning he stood on a makeshift podium to deliver an impassioned speech to his staff about how the company would eventually grow to be among the world's giants, counting revenue in the trillions of yen. Some 38 years on, Soft Bank has evolved into a global telecommunications and internet conglomerate worth 10.8 trillion, and Son's penchant for pursuing out-of-the-box ideas appears as strong as ever as he looks to craft a connected future run by computers far more intelligent than humans. The two part-timers, thinking their boss was out of his mind, were out the door shortly thereafter.
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