Japan’s Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1 trillion in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China’s internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted with Steve Jobs to turn the iPhone into a wonder product; and financed hundreds of tech start-ups, fuelling the biggest boom Silicon Valley has ever seen.

This book takes you on Son’s wild ride, from his birthplace in a Korean slum in post-war Japan to the modern-day temples of power. It speeds through Donald Trump’s golden skyscraper in Manhattan, the royal palaces of Riyadh and the throne rooms of China’s Marxist rulers; all places where Son has deployed his unique blend of financial engineering and crazy risk-taking.

Son’s story captures a 25 year-span of hyper-globalisation in which money, technologies and ideas flowed freely. From the launch of the microchip to the advent of artificial intelligence, he has ridden the technological wave which has created extraordinary wealth and economic change. His topsy-turvy business career is testimony to the power of optimism, daring to dream, ever in search of the Next Big Thing.

As an ethnic Korean in Japan, Son has overcome adversity and discrimination to become Japan’s best-known businessman and empire-builder but he remains an elusive, intensely private figure. This book, by a former editor of the Financial Times, contains a wealth of new information and has had the co-operation of many of the key participants, including Son himself. Written with a verve appropriate to its subject, Gambling Man reveals the man behind the money, what drives him, why he matters, and what he plans for his next act.


他，是改變金融世界的賭徒，也是21世紀的資金魔術大師
＊＊＊收錄45張珍貴照片，從影像認識孫正義成長與投資歷程＊＊＊

輝達黃仁勳曾在公開場合表示：在每一次科技浪潮中，孫正義都選對了贏家。

從雅虎到阿里巴巴，Nvidia到OpenAI，孫正義押注的企業幾乎定義了世界科技的走向。他締造過Uber、DoorDash與Slack的成功，也遭遇過WeWork的世紀滑鐵盧。孫正義與軟銀一次次站在資本市場的風頭浪尖，高峰時受人追捧，低谷時飽受質疑。
這位日本貧民窟後代出身的企業家當過一日世界首富，也曾財富蒸發96%後重返顛峰。憑著無比膽識與瘋狂賭注，他改寫了全球科技與商業版圖。
本書作者為《金融時報》前總編輯，歷經多年調查與專訪，以「文采斐然且揭露驚人內幕」（普立茲獎得主史蒂夫．柯爾評語）的筆觸，帶你走進紐約、東京、矽谷、沙烏地阿拉伯等權力核心，看孫正義與軟銀如何逆勢翻盤、顛覆傳統，重塑二十一世紀的財富邏輯。
這不只是億萬富翁的傳記，更是一場對當代資本主義的深度解剖。無論你崇拜他，質疑他，或將他視為笑談——孫正義的跌宕人生揭示了現代商業的真相。

——中文簡介摘自商周出版《商業狂人孫正義》