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Japan's maverick billionaire bets big abroad

2015-06-08 15:10:16| Telecom - Topix.net

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, Japan's telecom and Internet giant, is one of his country's few mavericks. When his company placed a $20 million bet 15 years ago on Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, plenty of peers considered it too risky a venture.

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