SoftBank founder and chief executive Masayoshi Son is interviewed in a Blackstone video. It runs 30 minutes and was published on the Blackstone YouTube channel on 12 October 2026 under the title “SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: Superintelligence, AI Investing, and the Future of Robotics”.

Original video: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: Superintelligence, AI Investing, and the Future of Robotics (Blackstone on YouTube).

About Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi Son founded the company now known as SoftBank Group Corp. in Japan in September 1981. He is its representative director, chairman and chief executive. Born in 1957, he has led SoftBank through its evolution from a software distributor into a technology investment group.

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