Masayoshi Son
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Sep 21, 2026
Ed LudlowHOST
disease[upbeat music] SoftBank's piling on more debts to fuel its massive bet on OpenAI.
Ed LudlowHOST
According to sources, the company's seeking more than $11 billion in junk bonds as Masayoshi Son continues to ramp up its investment in the ChatGPT maker.
Ed LudlowHOST
Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom, who leads our coverage of Asia technology, is back on the show.
Ed LudlowHOST
Uh, it's Friday, we kind of talked about, uh, certain tranches of debt, uh, that they had amassed just that week.
Richard CoffinHOST
Nonetheless, this pitch of we're actually a tech company seemed to work and garner enough support from VCs to help fuel this rapid expansion with their capital.
Richard CoffinHOST
mainly with the support of people like Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank Group, who over the company's lifespan allegedly invested $18.5 billion into the business.
Richard CoffinHOST
The company reaching 528 locations across the world and reaching that $47 billion valuation in 2019 with a round of financing from SoftBank.
Richard CoffinHOST
But alas, in 2019, the year that the company would decide to try and go public, the cracks started to show.
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
Yeah.
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
It's worth slowing down here to just, uh, pause and understand exactly what Masayoshi Son is doing with SoftBank at this point.
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
As you pointed out, he's got more than $20 billion in new loans that he's, uh, securing in order to make this investment in OpenAI.
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
He said he's gonna invest about $65 billion.
Ed LudlowHOST
So I think a lot of people might pose the reasonable question, what is SoftBank? Like, okay, we know-
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
[laughs]
Ed LudlowHOST
... that there is Masayoshi Son, there's SoftBank, they have exposure to OpenAI.
Ed LudlowHOST
Just explain the basics.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
The amount of money they lost doesn't touch the sides of the amount of money lost on AI.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
So the Saudi royals funneled $31 billion to Uber through, um, SoftBank, through Masayoshi Son.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
So 31 billion over 13 years, they lost 41 cents on every ride, so they were running a 59% loss on every, uh, on every ride.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
AI, it's more like, it's more like 95%, and we're talking about a trillion dollars.
Caitlin M. GreenHOST
It's not about you.
Caitlin M. GreenHOST
It's about, like, getting Masayoshi Son to like it or Marc Andreessen or whoever.
Caitlin M. GreenHOST
Like, that's who we need is the people who move the money around in really large quantities, right?
Adrian DaubGUEST
And the governors who decline to-
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
They're actually borrowing money to be able to put into, uh, OpenAI, and they wanna also build out the infrastructure in, through their Stargate, uh, venture to build out these data centers too.
Peter ElstromCORRESPONDENT
So they have a, a lot on the line, and the sooner they can get payback, the better for Masayoshi Son and SoftBank.
Ed LudlowHOST
Peter, really quick.
Ed LudlowHOST
It, it became obvious by Saturday we'd have a pretty tense Monday open in the US because of the news headlines and, and the ideas.
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In Europe, shares of Dutch semiconductor giant ASML fell four point three percent.
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The net worth of the billionaire founder and CEO of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, also took a hit because of the route, falling by more than eight billion dollars to seventy-two point five billion.
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Son fell from twenty-seventh to twenty-ninth on the list of the world's wealthiest people.
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For more on this story, check out the article at the link in the description.
Ann PettiforGUEST
But initially, it's the, the money.
Ann PettiforGUEST
And this brings me back to my book, which I want to talk about, because one of the people in, in my book that for me typifies the global casino is Masayoshi Son-
Tim El-SheikhHOST
Mm-hmm
Ann PettiforGUEST
... who owns, uh, or who's the, the head of, uh, something called SoftBank.
Ann PettiforGUEST
But in the case of, I think, OpenAI and even Anthropic AI, they have become monetized in a sense.
Ann PettiforGUEST
Um, and so what is happening is that investors, including NVIDIA, are throwing money at them, um, and in the hope of inflating the bubble and making more money.
Ann PettiforGUEST
And one of the people, one of the, uh, lenders is, uh, Masayoshi Son's SoftBank.
Ann PettiforGUEST
And SoftBank, uh, so as soon as Trump was elected, um, Son flew across to the United States to meet him.
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AmberCORRESPONDENT
Mientras los ejecutivos debaten si poner el freno, SoftBank pisa el acelerador a fondo.
AmberCORRESPONDENT
Bloomberg confirmó esta mañana que la firma de Masayoshi Son cerró un préstamo a dos años por once punto ocho siete mil millones de dólares con aproximadamente veinte bancos, casi dos mil millones por encima de su meta de diez mil millones, para financiar su apuesta en OpenAI.
AmberCORRESPONDENT
SoftBank planea liquidar mañana veinticinco punto nueve mil millones de dólares en un préstamo puente independiente, y ahora explora una emisión de bonos de alto rendimiento de hasta veinte mil millones adicionales.
AmberCORRESPONDENT
Los inversores no quedaron convencidos.
Prakash NarayananHOST
Elon will take time to come up with compute, and Elon will sell to Anthropic, but Elon's gonna take a long time, like three years at least.
Prakash NarayananHOST
So OpenAI, they basically mortgaged themselves in the last eighteen months to Masayoshi Son and a bunch of other people.
Prakash NarayananHOST
They diluted.
Prakash NarayananHOST
They, uh, they gave up to Microsoft, right? They had Micros- they, they, they negotiated Microsoft.
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