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Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son

SoftBank CEO; major AI investor

SoftBank chair and CEO. Co-investor in Stargate and major financial backer of OpenAI. Has predicted superintelligence by 2035.

current CEO and Chairman, SoftBank Group

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Strategy positions

Techno-optimismendorses

Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates them

Among the largest financial backers of the AI build-out. Predicts superintelligence by 2035 and treats this as primary investment thesis.

Artificial superintelligence will arrive within 10 years.

Context: SoftBank annual general meeting.

talkMasayoshi Son on ASI· SoftBank· 2024-06-21· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Masayoshi Son's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • A. Michael Spence

    A. Michael Spence

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Stanford economist; Nobel laureate; AI economic effects

  • Aaron Levie

    Aaron Levie

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Box co-founder and CEO

  • Adam D'Angelo

    Adam D'Angelo

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    CEO of Quora; OpenAI board member

  • Adam Jonas

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Morgan Stanley equity analyst; embodied AI and humanoid robots lead

  • Aidan McLaughlin

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    OpenAI scaling researcher

  • Aman Sanger

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Cursor co-founder

Record last updated 2026-04-25.