On an evening at the turn of the millennium, Masayoshi Son had ... made a killing from an early $20 million bet on Jack Ma's ...

Masayoshi Son speaking at a SoftBank event in Tokyo last month.Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images Huang and Son also ... After Huang brought up SoftBank's early exit, Son pretended to cry on his shoulder.

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Jack Ma (left) and Masayoshi Son in 2010. Visual China Group via Getty Images SoftBank has sold roughly ... reputation as a tech investor, whose many early bets during the 1990s and early 2000s ...

But the picture was a little different ... a Japanese investment holding firm, Masayoshi Son is known for making big bets. He was an early investor in Jack Ma’s Alibaba and was also an early ...