Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son founded and runs mobile telecom and investment giant SoftBank Group. Investors in Son’s Vision Fund include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund. The Vision Fund has invested in over 100 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Korean ecommerce leader Coupang and India’s Paytm. SoftBank’s shares, which fell after the WeWork IPO collapsed in 2019, were up in 2020 thanks to IPOs such as that of food delivery firm DoorDash. A slew of Son-backed IPOs are expected in 2021, including that of Indian insurance aggregator PolicyBazaar and China’s ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing,