08 Masayoshi Son

Net worth : $ 22.7bn

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son is founder and CEO of SoftBank , one of the largest tech companies in the world which owns stakes in big names like Uber , Slack , Alibaba and Sprint . Headquartered in Tokyo , the group has over 68,000 staff and since Masayoshi founded the company in 1981 it has accumulated a revenue of $ 79mn . Personally , the founder ’ s worth is recorded as $ 22.7bn and as such he is

the 39th richest person in the world . www . softbank . jp

NOVEMBER 2018