Unravelling SoftBank’s investment strategy as Masayoshi Son puts over $4B into India in last 9 months

Unravelling SoftBank’s investment strategy as Masayoshi Son puts over $4B into India in last 9 months

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks at SoftBank World 2017 event in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 20, 2017. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

Billionaire Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., has for a while now made it his business to bet on the future. That’s probably why a downturn of the kind that is currently in session in India’s technology start-up market doesn’t ruffle him. In an interview in December, during a brief visit to New Delhi, he said, “There are good times and bad times but SoftBank is always there.”

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