The man behind SoftBank has now teamed up with OpenAI to invest up to $500 billion in American AI infrastructure over the next four years. Masayoshi Son has a vision for the future of the world. But what does that vision look like?
Lionel Barber is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Financial Times and author of the book “Gambling Man: The Secret Story of t ... Show More
Oct 7
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? Plus, Apple Bets on Doorbells
Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jon Quast debate whether the AI boom is becoming a bubble and what could eventually cause it to burst. They also look at how investors can position portfolios when AI valuations look stretched and massive spending continues. Then, the team breaks d ... Show More
19m 25s
Oct 6
Paramount + Warner Bros.: The $110 Billion Bet That Could Reshape Streaming
Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have officially joined forces in a $110 billion deal, creating a streaming heavyweight with more than 200 million subscribers—and $80 billion in debt. Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Matt Frankel break down whether the combined company can com ... Show More
19m 29s
Oct 2024
#40 The Chronicler - Lionel Barber on Masa Son, SoftBank, the FT & Wirecard
Lionel Barber is the former editor of the Financial Timesand probably the only journalist on the planet to have interviewed Presidents Obama, Trump and Putin. Under his stewardship, the FT metamorphosed from a newspaper into a digital subscription business, and was sold to the Ja ... Show More
56m 20s
Jan 2025
Teflon Son? How Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son’s legend keeps growing
On today’s episode, host Josh Christensen is joined by ‘Fast Company’ associate editor David Salazar to help break down the latest news in the world of business and innovation, including the fallout from DeepSeek’s LLM launch, the backtracked federal funding freeze, and the risin ... Show More
1 h
Nov 2024
Lionel Barber and Zanny Minton Beddoes on the Story of the World’s Wildest Investor, Part Two
This is the second instalment of a three-part episode. Japan’s Masayoshi Son has purportedly invested or controlled assets worth $1trn in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China’s internet colossus, before the world had heard abou ... Show More
35m 49s
Apr 2025
246. Alok Sama on corporate finance in the fast lane
Alok Sama spent years in corporate finance and as a managing director at Morgan Stanley before joining Softbank as CFO and plunging into founder-CEO Masayoshi Son’s world of high-speed, high-risk decision making. For Sama, the shift involved many eye-opening experiences, which he ... Show More
46m 58s
Mar 2024
First Time Founders with Ed Elson – Could this AI Founder Replace Investment Bankers?
Ed speaks with Gabe Stengel, Co-founder and CEO of Rogo, about the potential for AI to disrupt the banking sector. They also discuss Gabe’s experience pitching his financial services AI company to VCs, the importance of willpower, and how he finds balance between work and his per ... Show More
43m 41s
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 522, an interview with the author of <em>Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son</em>, Lionel Barber.</p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p dir="ltr">In this episode, Lionel discusses his career and insig ... Show More
