世界互聯網巨頭孫正義 商界冒險家

Masayoshi Son, the risk-addicted billionaire who built Japan’s SoftBank into a global internet powerhouse, is a man who moves fast to seize whatever he has set his eyes on.

孫正義(Masayoshi Son)一旦看中什麼目標，就會迅速出擊。這位愛冒險的億萬富翁把他在日本一手創辦的軟銀(SoftBank)打造成了世界互聯網巨頭。

Less than a month after Britain voted to leave the EU, Mr Son clinched a deal to acquire UK chip designer Arm Holdings for ￡24.3bn.

英國舉行公投決定退出歐盟不到1個月，孫正義就敲定了一項協議，同意以243億英鎊收購英國芯片設計公司安謀國際(Arm Holdings)，成爲亞洲企業對英國公司最大規模的收購案。

It was the largest Asian takeover of a British company.

但這筆大膽的交易還滿足不了這位59歲、人稱Masa的企業家。

But the audacious deal was not enough to satisfy the 59-year-old known as Masa, who enjoys his reputation for having big and crazy ideas.

他喜歡人們說他總是有瘋狂的奇思妙想。

After the summer had passed, Mr Son was off to Riyadh to meet Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince, to launch a $100bn technology fund.

夏天剛過，孫正義動身前往利雅德，與沙特副王儲、掌握實權的穆罕默德.本.薩勒曼王子(Prince Mohammed bin Salman)會面，目的是發起設立一隻1000億美元的科技基金。

Armed with fresh funding power, Mr Son was next spotted in New York, forging ties with President-elect Donald Trump with a $50bn pledge to invest in US start-ups.

攜着新的資金實力，孫正義又現身紐約，與美國當選總統唐納德.特朗普(Donald Trump)建立了關係，承諾向美國初創企業投資500億美元。

Born into a poor family of second-generation Koreans living in Japan, Mr Son transformed the tiny company he founded in 1981 into the country’s third-largest mobile carrier and a global technology conglomerate that also owns US wireless carrier Sprint.

孫正義出生在日本一個窮人家，父母是韓國二代移民，他把自己1981年創辦的小公司發展成爲了日本第三大移動運營商、旗下擁有美國無線運營商Sprint的全球性科技企業集團。

With a self-declared man’s appetite for world domination, Mr Son has no intention to slow down after abandoning plans to retire at the age of 60.

他說自己身上有屬於男人的稱雄世界的慾望，在放棄60歲退休的計劃後，他絲毫無意放慢腳步。