Masayoshi Son
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Masayoshi Son is the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group, a Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its technology investments. Elsewhere's corpus notes him re-emerging as an active market participant in 2025, with Bill Gurley of Benchmark observing that "Masa is back" and treating his presence itself as a market indicator . The bundle also records his earlier role in global tech deployment: SoftBank under Son led the $1.05 billion funding round for UK autonomous driving startup Wayve in 2024, alongside Microsoft and Nvidia , and Marcelo Claure—described as Son's former right-hand man and ex-COO of SoftBank—was appointed to lead SHEIN's Latin American expansion in 2023 .
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