## Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship An Interview With Softbank'S CEO, Masayoshi Son ### Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview With Softbank'S CEO, Masayoshi Son  #### Metadata * Author: [[Alan M. Webber]] * Full Title: Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview With Softbank'S CEO, Masayoshi Son * Category: #articles * Document Tags: [[Favorites]] * URL: <https://hbr.org/1992/01/japanese-style-entrepreneurship-an-interview-with-softbanks-ceo-masayoshi-son> #### Highlights * For a year and a half, I did research and made business plans. While I prepared, I had no income. I spent money, I had a new baby. My wife was worried. All my friends, my father, my mother, everybody was worried. They asked me, what are you going to do? You spent years studying in the United States, and now you aren't doing anything. I spent all my time just thinking and thinking, studying what to do. I went to the library and bookstores. I bought books, I read all kinds of materials to prepare for what I would do for the next 50 years. # Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview With Softbank’S CEO, Masayoshi Son  ## Metadata - Author: [[Alan M. Webber]] - Full Title: Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview With Softbank’S CEO, Masayoshi Son - Category: #articles - Document Tags: [[Favorites]] - URL: https://hbr.org/1992/01/japanese-style-entrepreneurship-an-interview-with-softbanks-ceo-masayoshi-son ## Highlights - For a year and a half, I did research and made business plans. While I prepared, I had no income. I spent money, I had a new baby. My wife was worried. All my friends, my father, my mother, everybody was worried. They asked me, what are you going to do? You spent years studying in the United States, and now you aren’t doing anything. I spent all my time just thinking and thinking, studying what to do. I went to the library and bookstores. I bought books, I read all kinds of materials to prepare for what I would do for the next 50 years.