Gambling Man (with Lionel Barber)

Episode 32

November 28 2024

38 minutes

Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times, discusses his fascinating biography of Masayoshi Son, one of the world’s least-known but most consequential investors. Regarding himself as an ’empire builder’ rather than a CEO, Son was briefly the world’s richest man and has ruffled many feathers on his rise from a Korean slum in Japan to the modern-day temples of power. Russell Napier asks the questions.

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