Who is the richest man in Japan now?

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Japan's richest man, the founder of the famous Internet venture capital company "Software Bank", the company's assets are about 30 billion US dollars, and his personal value is about 4 billion US dollars. The Japanese media called it "driving Japan out of the dark age of the Internet".

In 1999, among the 25 "management elites" in the world, China's Business Weekly ranked Sun Zhengyi first, and Forbes magazine called him "the hottest entrepreneur in Japan".

Type of enterprise

Computer industry.

Growth record

The so-called "times make heroes", when people don't know what computers are, people talk about Morgan, Rockefeller and Li Ka-shing, but since the emergence of computers and the Internet, almost everyone knows Bill Gates, Jerry Yang and Allison. In this stormy movement, people may ask, who is the biggest beneficiary of the Internet age? The answer is not Bill Gates, but Sun Zhengyi. Who is the uncrowned king in the Internet age? Not Jerry Yang, but Masayoshi Son. He is a miracle in the Internet age. Although some people say that he is a gambler and a speculator, these do not prevent him from implementing his ambitions and establishing his own network empire.

The first 1 10,000

1957, 1 1 In August, Sun Zhengyi was born in Ma Qi, Saga Prefecture. Masayoshi son's grandfather came to Japan from South Korea before World War II and worked as a miner in Zhu Feng coal mine, so Masayoshi son should be regarded as the third generation of Korean-Japanese.

When Masayoshi Son was born, his family was not very rich. My father raises chickens and pigs for a living. In order to get some feed for chickens, my grandmother gets up early every day and pushes a cart to collect leftovers. Masayoshi son is sitting in the cart. Although it was hard, her grandmother was optimistic and educated Sun Zhengyi to be grateful. So far, Masayoshi Son cries when he thinks of his grandmother.

Gradually, with the efforts of the whole family, the family began to improve, and my father began to do some small businesses and have some assets. 1974 In February, Sun Zhengyi, who was only 17 years old, embarked on a journey to the United States. After arriving in America, my son entered an English school in California. 1In September, 975, he entered salamon High School again, but only two weeks later, he passed the college entrance examination and jumped into Holly Nemz University.

Two years later, Sun Zhengyi transferred to the Economics Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and transferred to the third grade. It can be said that Berkeley's life completely changed Sun Zhengyi's later life. During the six years of studying in the United States, Sun Zhengyi studied very hard. He often held a book when walking, eating, going to the toilet or even entering the bathtub, and slept for 3-5 hours every day.

By chance, Masayoshi Son bought a copy of "Popular Electronics" and saw that great photo-an enlarged photo of a computer chip produced by Intel. At this time, Sun Zhengyi was "excited and lost consciousness, not only sweating a lot, but even tears came out." Subconsciously, he knew that this little chip would change the world and his life. The intuition at this moment made Sun Zhengyi embark on the road of no return with computers-"I want to engage in computers, and the road that entrepreneurs should take is the computer industry."

At that time, many people in the university were working part-time, but my son didn't want to wash the dishes. He thinks it is not creative, and he wants to make money through his own invention. He stipulated that there must be an invention every day, no matter how big or small. A year later, in his Notes on Invention Research, 250 inventions were recorded magnificently, the most important of which was the "multilingual translation machine". It is a combination of dictionary, speech synthesizer and computer. Similar to today's "Ciba", as long as you enter a Japanese word, you will have a correct English pronunciation to respond.

In order to promote his products, Masayoshi Son returned to Japan during the holiday, wrote to the presidents of 50 home appliance companies in advance, and personally visited Canon, Omron, Hewlett-Packard, Casio, Panasonic, Sharp and other 10 companies, but all of them were rejected without exception, and some front desk staff even said that this thing was "worthless".

However, Masayoshi Son was not discouraged. After many twists and turns and relationships, Masayoshi Son met Sasaki Tadashi, the head of Sharp and the father of Japanese electronics industry. At first, Sasaki didn't care about the young man, but when Masayoshi son described his invention seriously, he was moved by this seriousness and vitality. He thinks this young man is brave and wants to "cultivate vigorously", so.

1978, Sun Zhengyi used the huge royalties from selling multilingual translators and translation software to open a company called Unison World in the United States, which was engaged in the commercialization of multilingual translators and the development of subsequent products, as well as the import of electronic games and the development of electronic game software. He bought video games from Japan, reassembled them and put them in restaurants, bars, cafes and student dormitories. At its peak, he owned 350 video games.

When all this went so smoothly, Son chose to give up. He gave up the presidency to a friend and returned to Japan with the words "I'll be back". Because he only regards the products of his student days as tools for working and rehearsals for regular companies, and Japan is the real beginning of his career!

Software bank

At the age of 2 1, Masayoshi son returned to Japan. Without rest, workaholics began to plan their own careers and set up "Company and Music World". At that time, he ran around trying to make a thorough investigation of the market. "If I want to do it, I will be the first in Japan in this field. The question is which competitive event to choose. " My son decided to spend two years looking for a suitable project, but in fact, life is very difficult. How to make a living with a wife and a newborn eldest daughter? He is getting more and more uneasy. "It's like walking into a tunnel with no end in sight." He really wants to find a project to do, but he thinks that "once you start a business, it will take several years." If you don't succeed, it's a detour to come again. " To this end, he made the expected profit and loss calculation table, forecast balance table, capital turnover table and organization chart of 40 projects 10. All the files have been built, more than ten meters high.