By Xeba73 (2014-08-21)
Masayoshi Son is the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, Asia's leading tech conglomerate with interests in telecom, internet, e-commerce, online gaming, broadband, media, etc.
As of August 2014, Forbes ranks him as the richest Japanese and sixth-richest Asian, worth an estimated $17.5 billion. He is said to have lost more than $70 billion during the 2000 dot-com crash, the largest loss in personal wealth ever.