I’m s Japanese and a senior at a Japanese college. And I went to hear the lecture by Son Masayosi as a recruitment event yesterday. That was just nothing but inspiring and motivating!!
I've heard a lot about this company, I'm glad someone was here to finally give some explanation of what it does and why it is so influential. Thank you CNBC and Uptin Saiidi.
Id call it an inverse of Berkshire. Softbank is basically a venture capitalist and tech conglomerate which invests in risky companies with poor balance sheets with the hope that some of them strike gold. BRK invests in established companies with strong cash flows erroring on the side of safety.
No one trust Jack Ma vision that time. He is the only one who can see what Jack Ma's see in the future of Ecommerce. Without his 25 million dollar funding alibaba will go nowhere.
$25 Million to kick start Alibaba.com. What exactly was the money used for? Seems like a simple concept. I have known about Alibaba way before yahoo bought it. Give me some knowledge
Yahoo bought Alibaba? Are you kidding me? Simple google will help you to educate more about the company. Jerry Yang just invested in Alibaba for shares of the company. He never bought Alibaba, Jack Ma is still in control of all the shares of his company. Also Masayoshi Son introduced Jack Ma to Jerry Yang (Founder of Yahoo) and also the first investor of Yahoo is also Masayoshi Son (Founder of Softbank).
Mid Yop i dont agree i admit that he (softbank) put his money in alibaba but Jack ma worked super hard to turn alibaba into billion dollars firm. Respect Jack ma he made himself.
they force you to take their investment. If you reject their investment, they will simple invest your competitors. That is a really unethical way of performing business
@@arifgunawan9329 Look at what happened to Uber. Softbank made sure to invest heavily in Uber's competitors in each country (Lyft, Ola, Didi) ultimately forcing the cash starved Uber to turn to Softbank. Now Softbank is a monopoly.
@@aliefr2984 so, if you owned a company and you don't want to share it with someone for some reason but you're being coerced into selling into that exact person. That's okay?
He is really on a Tech craze, i mean how can he approve Wework's business model for investment. Its not even a tech company. What does Wework even mean the company's real name should be "We dont even work". LOL
Nope, that's for the conglomerate tencent. The Forbes magazine name it as the most valuable asian company. The 1st asian company to break that 500 billion monthly cap. They got investment all over the world. from AI, software, social media, entertainment, health care, hard ware, transport, robotics, banks, sports, real estate, defense, travel, advertising, too many more.
@@alexk5631 of course i know. It is the biggest corporation in the world based on the storyline. They have influence in every country. Iol i was just stating if any corporations in asia has potential to be next umbrella corporation? then that's tencent. Research on how big and powerful they are compared to softbank.
... and the company with a 300 year vision! Thanks for the great insights. Are there any more good videos on the early years of Softbank you can recommend?
Please do a #CNBCExplains video about : How/Why #DJI dominates the global #drone industry? I'm a fan of the CNBC Explains series, you guys give a to the point analytical explaination about each topic and it's interesting to watch! Learn something new every time I watch this series! Keep up the good work :)
He is the Warren Buffett of Japan and the future. The real Warren Buffett have no guts investing in technology or start up like Alibaba. In a peace world, technology is the future.
Buffett doesn´t invest in companies he doesn´t understand, he is an old man so technology is not for him. I´m sure he understands about companies better than you
@@vubaoanh1997 yeah! Maza Son is not stupid by paying Neuman $1.7B to leave Wework and putting additonal $10B because they made no profit and ran out of money.
Hey Team! This was amazing, i always keep an eye on CNBC channel and with no second thought, i have find all the videos really interesting. I recommend to make alike video on temasek. Keep Going guys! Cheers for Masayoshi Son :)
josefin schwartz Soft bank is actually fruad , the first bucket of gold many People don't know for masayoshi son is from running a whorehouse . Lol He has now put much money in lots of Chinese enterprises such as alibaba，didichuxing etc and conducting intelligence gathering to China as well
Shut up Shuo, you're just jealous your neighbors in Japan are more original than the Chinese since they can actually come up with unique ideas without stealing them from western companies. Stay jealous.
You need to understand how it works. Its betting for the rich but with far better odds. It can afford to bet on 10 tech start ups and only needs 1 to make it like Uber. The returns on the investmebt and the earnings as a shareholder is enough for them to laugh off the other 9 that failed.
One thing I don't understand though is witch measurements those Forbes use when they say largest companies? They say softbank is above Amazon but Amazons market cap makes it the second biggest company after apple that's number 1 in the entire world... on Forbes list apple was on number 9. They do not go for market cap so what's there measuremen?.., revenue? Market share? Growth? How do they combine all this when they rank so called largest companies? Confused
I am long Softbank ...Like Masa very much ..how he not gave up after loosing 99 percent of his wealth ...big big example for me ..greetings from Germany
There is a ton of debt involved, Son is making the same mistake he made during the dot-com bubble (he was the richest man of the world for few days and risked going bakrupt shortly after)
The irony is, two major service provider of the same industry has his investments into their businesses. Meaning, the money you shell out will land in his pocket.
Masayoshi Son is of Korean descent. His original name is Jeong-ui Son. He naturalized and became a Japanese citizen in order to continue his business in Japan.
how do you people do such a elaborated research? what are your sources of info? bcoz even i would like read such info. but most of the times I just end up on some webpage full of adds
SoftBank is funding startup and competitors, like ride sharing companies Uber and OLA they have invested in both them . If one of them succeeds they will get good share as returns are too big if startup succeeds.
Amazing topline video, a good starting point for someone who would like to dig deeper in this magnificent entrepreneur. Too much credit indeed but that’s the cheapest mode of expanding and growing big businesses, that’s the name of the game of the ULTRA RICH. LEVERAGE.
This bank is a economic-political heavy weight & has now got Toe hold in India. Indian companies got better ratings, profits after they took investments from SoftBank.
To be fair, the top two companies on the Forbes list are Chinese and I’ve never heard of them either. There are actually 8 Chinese companies bigger than SoftBank.
Son is an ethnic Korean(same sur name as Son, Heung-min of Tottenham hotsper) born in West Japan near Korea. His grandfather moved from Korea to Japan during the colonial period. His nationality was Korean till 1990 and changed as Japanese at that time. The reason why he stopped studung in high school in Japan and went to US to study was because of the Japanese discrimination against Korean. Since Koreans born in Japan could never have proper Jobs in Japan then, many Koreans born in Japan became sports players or TV entertainer, and never disclose their secrets about their origine in public. Hard situation made him stronger and let him found Softbank and succeed. Even though he naturalized to Japan, he never have changed his sur name, which had been impossible then(Son was not allowed be registered by Japanese sur name), by his Japanese wife's help.
wrong, the reason he studied in the united states was because of many Japanese students studying abroad during the bubble economy when Japan was on the verge of overtaking the united states. It has nothing to do with discrimination. He even said himself that he studied in the united states on the advice of Den Fujita who was the president of Mcdonald's Japan. Today his children are of more Japanese blood than Korean, because Masa is half-japanese while his wife is fully japanese.
I’m s Japanese and a senior at a Japanese college. And I went to hear the lecture by Son Masayosi as a recruitment event yesterday. That was just nothing but inspiring and motivating!!
bruh are you using google translate. lmao
@@didyoustealmyfood8729 doubt it considering he made a typo
He's the craziest hedge fund gambler
i am so proud of you son ...
And we are ashamed of your dad Osama bin laden.
Lol what?!
Father, is that you? We miss you! 😞
Osama's last name is Bin laden. Your last name is Osama. Shouldn't your name be Osama Osama or Khan Bin Laden? 🤔🤔🤔😁
I khan believe that
"SoftBank threatened to finance their rivals..."
Dammit! Just chill, Mr. Iron SoftBank of Braavos
ahahhaha!!damnnn son
I've heard a lot about this company, I'm glad someone was here to finally give some explanation of what it does and why it is so influential.
Thank you CNBC and Uptin Saiidi.
Its like a modern day Berkshire hathaway
... take big tickets in loss making investments :-)
Id call it an inverse of Berkshire. Softbank is basically a venture capitalist and tech conglomerate which invests in risky companies with poor balance sheets with the hope that some of them strike gold. BRK invests in established companies with strong cash flows erroring on the side of safety.
^
thank you for your Saudi's money. Now.... it's gone!
It's the furthest thing possible from BH/Warren Buffet.
To be honest, This guy is the one who created Jack Ma.
Mid Yop I wouldn't go that far but he' def funded the early vision
No one trust Jack Ma vision that time. He is the only one who can see what Jack Ma's see in the future of Ecommerce. Without his 25 million dollar funding alibaba will go nowhere.
$25 Million to kick start Alibaba.com. What exactly was the money used for? Seems like a simple concept. I have known about Alibaba way before yahoo bought it. Give me some knowledge
Yahoo bought Alibaba? Are you kidding me? Simple google will help you to educate more about the company. Jerry Yang just invested in Alibaba for shares of the company. He never bought Alibaba, Jack Ma is still in control of all the shares of his company. Also Masayoshi Son introduced Jack Ma to Jerry Yang (Founder of Yahoo) and also the first investor of Yahoo is also Masayoshi Son (Founder of Softbank).
Mid Yop i dont agree i admit that he (softbank) put his money in alibaba but Jack ma worked super hard to turn alibaba into billion dollars firm. Respect Jack ma he made himself.
I love the tech related videos CNBC posts. It's refreshing.
Same
SoftBank invested in many Indian growing company, and happily mostly of them have shown high growth after investment by SoftBank
they force you to take their investment. If you reject their investment, they will simple invest your competitors. That is a really unethical way of performing business
@@Hawktotalwar nah, you're just jealous of softbank
@@arifgunawan9329 Look at what happened to Uber. Softbank made sure to invest heavily in Uber's competitors in each country (Lyft, Ola, Didi) ultimately forcing the cash starved Uber to turn to Softbank. Now Softbank is a monopoly.
@@Hawktotalwar that's not wrong, if you can't invest company A, it doesn't meant you're forbidden by law or moral to invest Company B.
@@aliefr2984 so, if you owned a company and you don't want to share it with someone for some reason but you're being coerced into selling into that exact person. That's okay?
He is really on a Tech craze, i mean how can he approve Wework's business model for investment. Its not even a tech company. What does Wework even mean the company's real name should be "We dont even work". LOL
THEROCKER8 so embarrassing
Soon softbank will change name to umbrella corporation
Nope, that's for the conglomerate tencent. The Forbes magazine name it as the most valuable asian company. The 1st asian company to break that 500 billion monthly cap. They got investment all over the world. from AI, software, social media, entertainment, health care, hard ware, transport, robotics, banks, sports, real estate, defense, travel, advertising, too many more.
@@lanzortiz3199 resident evil? Do u know?
@@alexk5631 of course i know. It is the biggest corporation in the world based on the storyline. They have influence in every country. Iol i was just stating if any corporations in asia has potential to be next umbrella corporation? then that's tencent. Research on how big and powerful they are compared to softbank.
SoftBank should invest in Hentai series.
You're a man of culture !!
Risks involved in every venture or adventure,,,, but Son and his team has been on the top reckoning. Thanks for your uploads. Great job, bless you.
... and the company with a 300 year vision! Thanks for the great insights. Are there any more good videos on the early years of Softbank you can recommend?
There is one by Coldfusion.
I thought they invest on Sprint
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Please do a #CNBCExplains video about :
How/Why #DJI dominates the global #drone industry?
I'm a fan of the CNBC Explains series, you guys give a to the point analytical explaination about each topic and it's interesting to watch! Learn something new every time I watch this series! Keep up the good work :)
Thank CNBC for your detailed explanation
The immense power firms like these have is frightening to say the least, literally more powerful than governments.
No. The Chinese government Shows the weakness of softbank
Damn Japan, you are humble yet grab the world continuosly
Masayoshi must be the proudest father in Japan.
1:15 that dab
He is the Warren Buffett of Japan and the future. The real Warren Buffett have no guts investing in technology or start up like Alibaba. In a peace world, technology is the future.
It's not about guts. It is about what you know and what you don't. Besides, Buffet own 5% of Apple.
Buffett doesn´t invest in companies he doesn´t understand, he is an old man so technology is not for him. I´m sure he understands about companies better than you
@@vubaoanh1997 yeah! Maza Son is not stupid by paying Neuman $1.7B to leave Wework and putting additonal $10B because they made no profit and ran out of money.
Well let’s see if they can recoup the we work investment
Yesss 🤣🤣
30 billion dollars. Ouch.
possibly with coupang have to wait until IPO goes public
Hey Team!
This was amazing, i always keep an eye on CNBC channel and with no second thought, i have find all the videos really interesting. I recommend to make alike video on temasek.
Keep Going guys!
Cheers for Masayoshi Son :)
SOOOFTBANK! Finally!!!!! My favorite
josefin schwartz Soft bank is actually fruad , the first bucket of gold many
People don't know for masayoshi son is from running a whorehouse . Lol He has now put much money in lots of Chinese enterprises such as alibaba，didichuxing etc and conducting intelligence gathering to China as well
Shut up Shuo, you're just jealous your neighbors in Japan are more original than the Chinese since they can actually come up with unique ideas without stealing them from western companies. Stay jealous.
@James Franko not only US but india as well. Every large start up in india is created by this guy
“ When we were rich . . . Ahhhhhh“ - April 2020 😿😢😭
@@hugol648 Hahah. 300 year vision dont worry. ;) ;)
WeWork busted softbank $7B. So much for VISION
During the dot com buble burst, he lost far more than that overnight.
60B - 7B = 53B still left to be cheated...Lets build a startup guys...
You need to understand how it works.
Its betting for the rich but with far better odds.
It can afford to bet on 10 tech start ups and only needs 1 to make it like Uber. The returns on the investmebt and the earnings as a shareholder is enough for them to laugh off the other 9 that failed.
Good setup if he became a super villain. No super villain controls 100 of the biggest tech firms yet
I give CNBC a C- for it's researching skills (or lack thereof).
why? its good video?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
This is so fun to watch after SoftBank got into trouble with a bunch of nonsense investment.
They recovered overnight man. Softbank reported record profits this year.
We work for sure
One thing I don't understand though is witch measurements those Forbes use when they say largest companies? They say softbank is above Amazon but Amazons market cap makes it the second biggest company after apple that's number 1 in the entire world... on Forbes list apple was on number 9. They do not go for market cap so what's there measuremen?.., revenue? Market share? Growth? How do they combine all this when they rank so called largest companies? Confused
Good question! It's a mix of four metrics: sales, profit, assets and market value.
CNBC International. Alright thanks!
CNBC International amazon is still far ahead of the on all the metrics u are mentioning maybe except for profit
@@winstonwei9694 i think because apple not only sell the hardware but also the software.
@@winstonwei9694 Apple makes $40 B profit a year
your all videos are informative
I'm regular viewer
Your topics are really interesting.I love to watch your videos .Keep discussing good topics.
It's like a major portion of our day to day spending is filling Soft bank's pocket.
I am long Softbank ...Like Masa very much ..how he not gave up after loosing 99 percent of his wealth ...big big example for me ..greetings from Germany
"You better take my money"
He graduated with a BA in Economics
What was his average?
Y’all want my average everytime I apply for work or anything I want to do in business
1.17 the guy behind dabbing 😂
Superb investor, hatsoff
Whew Gazprom at 40?! Wow it's really falling from grace!
There is a ton of debt involved, Son is making the same mistake he made during the dot-com bubble (he was the richest man of the world for few days and risked going bakrupt shortly after)
Alex Voxel, Son is investing his excess money into useful products
He and the fund are here to stay. This is NOT the tech bubble anymore...
didn't he lose like 70bn at that time ??
Hugo Nongbri everyone else did as well.
That’s what entrepreneur are made of. Taking risks to provide a better solution for the mass
Isn't anyone worried about the monopoly being created??
sooner or later, he will devour the whole world.
True that. This guy has his business across industries & length and breadth of the world.
The irony is, two major service provider of the same industry has his investments into their businesses. Meaning, the money you shell out will land in his pocket.
@@raja03able specially the logistics.
No way, Its supported by 100 company
Masayoshi Son is of Korean descent. His original name is Jeong-ui Son. He naturalized and became a Japanese citizen in order to continue his business in Japan.
Great presentation you are.
Worthful person
Can you please do a video on current economy in Sri Lanka and what is possibly ahead in fire for Sri Lanka and it’s people in business sector.
Great content!
then only thing i know about SoftBank is their adorable dogo mascot!
Otousan!!!!
He is the second richest man in Japan.
First is the president of UNIQLO.
Wow! Never heard of them!
One day... it will blow up! 😊
They are going for the future tech market! COOL!
What a visionary, to get that kind of returns..mind blowing..
Sir, I really love your videos. Do on more intersting tech related companies right now uprising too sir.
I love his personality and fierce business strategies
~love from India
I would rather have a Japanese company like SoftBank be all influential and powerful than a Chinese company anytime.
i can say the same about american companies.
Zen News I was just thinking on the background of ethical and moral values both country holds in this era.
connor john Son is Korean and has connections to the yakuza and North Korea.
connor john correct
Navi 8888 People are scared of Nazism of course, Nazi Germany was a malice force and people fear them, history repeats.
SoftBank is the 21st century version of Berkshire Hathaway!
how do you people do such a elaborated research? what are your sources of info? bcoz even i would like read such info. but most of the times I just end up on some webpage full of adds
Son Heung Min brought me here 😍❤
Full length ads i cant skip
One more interesting thing is Mayasoshi Son is the son of a Korean imigrant.
In fact the richest Japanese is not even Japanese by ethic background.
AMAZING !!!!!!!!!
He basically wants to own , the the tech scenario in the next 10-15 years . Ambitious , and he might even pull it off.
not 10-15 years but the next 300 years
I'm a Computer Engineering student! I aspire to work in their Robotics division - even if it's just an internship
Great article 😎😎😎😎😎😎
Basically the Japanese Tencent
I know Softbank, it's from those funny Japanese commercials.
I love this channel but would love to see various reporters. Gah1
Elon who?
Seriously, this Masayoshi guy is the real deal.
Elon weeb.
Congratulations!🎉🎊🎈🍾 WOW to me.!
Pls do a video on Mukesh Ambani Richest man in India and his conglomerate....
what a fucking genius of a man
I remember Softbank because of the white doggo advertisements in Japan.
wow i was thinking his last name sounds so peculiar. turns out, he's an ethnic korean
SoftBank is funding startup and competitors, like ride sharing companies Uber and OLA they have invested in both them . If one of them succeeds they will get good share as returns are too big if startup succeeds.
Please do more info videos reg., Japan economy
0:52 guy's like "someone call my waifu?"
This story held up well #weworked
Don’t Put your money in SoftBank because it’s soft go put it in hardbank
Basically the game. Monopoly.
Can't wait for ARM IPO
Homeboy is wear'n tub socks at 4:02 when signing a deal.
Make a video on ARM
Japan rules the world. ♥️
thumbs up
Great & Cool Video 😎😎😎😎😎😎
What are the chaebols (South Korean conglomerates)
Masayoshi is truly the god of business
What is huawei? CNBC explain + why logo is same?
Grt video...!!!
He is super smart
What was his initial product or was it an investment firm from day 1?
distributing software
Amazing topline video, a good starting point for someone who would like to dig deeper in this magnificent entrepreneur. Too much credit indeed but that’s the cheapest mode of expanding and growing big businesses, that’s the name of the game of the ULTRA RICH. LEVERAGE.
Sprint is owned by Softbank
2:27 yeah... softbank even invest in tokopedia that are on my country
Almost all of the big tech companies are funded by softbank
Asia owns USA.
Make Asia Great Again.🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷
Cool video & what not, but someone tell my man hostin that his button up is small on him LOL
This bank is a economic-political heavy weight & has now got Toe hold in India.
Indian companies got better ratings, profits after they took investments from SoftBank.
this is totally UMBRELLA CORP....
Ohu Its a Great 🇯🇵Japani Company Are Invest All Over World And 🇨🇳China India 🇮🇳 All Over Great Good I Love ❤ Japan 🇯🇵 From India 🇮🇳
To be fair, the top two companies on the Forbes list are Chinese and I’ve never heard of them either. There are actually 8 Chinese companies bigger than SoftBank.
biggest company in the world, CCP
its all govt companies
Nice
Son is an ethnic Korean(same sur name as Son, Heung-min of Tottenham hotsper) born in West Japan near Korea. His grandfather moved from Korea to Japan during the colonial period.
His nationality was Korean till 1990 and changed as Japanese at that time. The reason why he stopped studung in high school in Japan and went to US to study was because of the Japanese discrimination against Korean. Since Koreans born in Japan could never have proper Jobs in Japan then, many Koreans born in Japan became sports players or TV entertainer, and never disclose their secrets about their origine in public.
Hard situation made him stronger and let him found Softbank and succeed. Even though he naturalized to Japan, he never have changed his sur name, which had been impossible then(Son was not allowed be registered by Japanese sur name), by his Japanese wife's help.
another korean bias :v
wrong, the reason he studied in the united states was because of many Japanese students studying abroad during the bubble economy when Japan was on the verge of overtaking the united states. It has nothing to do with discrimination. He even said himself that he studied in the united states on the advice of Den Fujita who was the president of Mcdonald's Japan. Today his children are of more Japanese blood than Korean, because Masa is half-japanese while his wife is fully japanese.
How big is tata? .....i think you shoulder make video on this big conglomerate..
watch coldfusion for that bro
Hugo Nongbri i know... there is a series....for that...on coldfusion
it is puny
Lima Charlie can u build a business larger than that .....if not then...who is puny now tata or ur thinking...