Nov 25, 2025
Masayoshi Son’s Fortune Drops Nearly $5 Billion Over OpenAI Concerns
The Softbank selloff has meant Masayoshi Son has dropped to eighth on Forbes’ real-time list of Asia’s richest people, down from third at the start of this month.
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Masayoshi Son
CEO, Softbank
$66.9B
$290M (0.43%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 8/12/26
Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
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Last Updated Jun 8, 2026, 6:00pm EDT
- Masayoshi Son founded and runs investment giant SoftBank Group, which reported net profit of 5 trillion yen ($31 billion) on sales of 7.8 trillion yen ($49 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2026.
- Investors in Son's Vision Fund 1 include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund.
- The Vision Funds have invested in over 400 companies, including ride-share firm Grab, Korean e-commerce leader Coupang and India's food-delivery platform Swiggy.
- Son is investing billions of dollars in AI, including in the $500 billion Stargate Project, in partnership with OpenAI, Oracle and MGX, to build AI infrastructure in the U.S.
- In November 2025, SoftBank sold its entire stake in chipmaker Nvidia for nearly $6 billion to fund its investment in OpenAI. It plans to invest $30 billion in three tranches between April and October 2026.
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42
Personal Stats
- Age
- 69
- Source of Wealth
- Telecom, Investments, Self Made
- Residence
- Tokyo, Japan
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley
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