SOFTBANK Company Description
SOFTBANK's investment strategy is anything but soft. Under the leadership of founder, chairman, and CEO Masayoshi Son (sometimes referred to as the Bill Gates of Japan), the company makes investments in a variety of ventures. Its portfolio holdings span the mobile and fixed-line telecommunications, Internet commerce and content, technology services, marketing, and broadband infrastructure sectors, and more. The company also invests venture capital in Internet-related concerns in Asia and the US. Interests in SOFTBANK MOBILE, SOFTBANK TELECOM, and Yahoo Japan, along with its minority stake in Yahoo!, comprise the bedrock of SOFTBANK's holdings.
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The Company Description provides a historical perspective of SOFTBANK's organization from inception to current status.
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