# Why SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is Silicon Valley's power broker

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2019-01-15
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2019/01/15/why-softbanks-masayoshi-son-is-silicon-valleys-power-broker/
- Categories: essay

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<blockquote>Billionaire Masayoshi Son–not Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg–has the most audacious vision for an AI-powered utopia where machines control how we live. And he’s spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realize it. Are you ready to live in Masa World?
— Read on <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-person-in-silicon-valley">www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-person-in-silicon-valley</a>

</blockquote>Oh boy -- Fast Company walked into this hagiography knowing fully well that SoftBank fund is funded by the Saudi Vision fund. So this was definitely a PR stunt pulled off brilliantly by the given the recent Saudi transgressions.