Masayoshi Son

PERSON

Billionaires

Masayoshi Son

🇯🇵 Japan • b. 1957

Founder and CEO of SoftBank Group.

Nationality
JP

Records

2 metrics · 6 records

Net Worth

5 records

What countsAnnual Forbes list value — one row per year; “current” = the latest year's row.

  • 2026May 1, 2026
    $38Bsrc
  • 2019Jan 1, 2019
    $21.6Bsrc
  • 2017Aug 14, 2017
    $22.2Bsrc
  • 2016Jun 1, 2016
    $17Bsrc
  • 2000Forbes World's Billionaires 2000 list net worth.
    $19.4Bsrc

Net Worth (Peak)

1 record

What countsAll-time maximum recorded net worth (highest citable figure, not an intraday estimate).

  • 2000Briefly the richest person in the world for three days in Feb 2000 before the dot-com crash; lost ~$70B in subsequent two months.
    $78Bsrc

Sources

3 sources cited on this page

  • VerifiedForbes

    Independently confirmed by a credible publisher.

  • Community-sourcedWikidata

    Cross-cutting structured data via SPARQL. Use as a backbone for entity slugs and IDs; verify numbers against tier-1 sources before publishing.

  • Independently confirmed by a credible publisher.

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