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Gambling Man : The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son by Lionel Barber

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Gambling Man : The Wild Ride of Japan’s Masayoshi Son by Lionel BarberGambling Man is the biography of one of the worlds least known but most consequential investors. Japans Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, Chinas internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted with Steve Jobs to turn the iPhone into a wonder product; and financed hundreds of tech start

Gambling Man is the biography of one of the world’s least known but most consequential investors.

Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China’s internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted with Steve Jobs to turn the iPhone into a wonder product; and financed hundreds of tech start-ups, fuelling the biggest boom Silicon Valley has ever seen. This book takes you on Son’s wild ride, from his birthplace in a Korean slum in post-war Japan to the modern-day temples of power. It speeds through Donald Trump’s golden skyscraper in Manhattan, the royal palaces of Riyadh and the throne rooms of China’s Marxist rulers; all places where Son has deployed his unique blend of financial engineering and crazy risk-taking. Son’s story captures a 25 year-span of hyper-globalisation in which money, technologies and ideas flowed freely. From the launch of the microchip to the advent of artificial intelligence, he has ridden the technological wave which has created extraordinary wealth and economic change. His topsy-turvy business career is testimony to the power of optimism, daring to dream, ever in search of the Next Big Thing. As an ethnic Korean in Japan, Son has overcome adversity and discrimination to become Japan’s best-known businessman and empire-builder but he remains an elusive, intensely private figure. This book, by a former editor of the Financial Times, contains a wealth of new information and has had the co-operation of many of the key participants, including Son himself. Written with a verve appropriate to its subject, Gambling Man reveals the man behind the money, what drives him, why he matters, and what he plans for his next act.

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Binding: Hardback,
Pagination: 416 pages
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Broought and read because Mattis read it. I found it a bit long in the tooth and was a bit disappointed.
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mikebuck
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★★★★★ 2
Rambling Strategy
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A man rambles long enough to justify a “full” book- In reality the same theory is repeated over and over Bottom line - Strategy is the way to accomplish political goals - it has been that way in the past and nothing will change - that’s the whole book I am not sure why General Mattis includes this on his reading list - it is def one of the weaker recommndations
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John P. Derosa
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Reading only because of the theorist
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Essential only to understand the broader thoughts of Gray. Leaves ample space for further debate on strategy and its implications.
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Other book could tell a better interpretation of this important topic and so i return the book
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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018

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