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SoftBank chief rues selling Nvidia stake and missing out on $150bn

Masayoshi Son calls the 2019 sale of stake in chip maker ‘the fish that got away’

By

Megumi Fujikawa

SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son spoke at the annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo on Friday.
SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son spoke at the annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo on Friday. Photo: yuichi yamazaki/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son on 21 June lamented what turned out to be a $150bn blunder: selling shares in Nvidia years before the chip maker became one of the world’s most valuable companies.

Son, known for some of the most successful investments in technology history, recalled one of his less-cherished moments at SoftBank Group’s annual shareholder meeting in Tokyo.

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