Bøger af Lionel Barber

Japan's Masayoshi Son has made and lost several fortunes, investing or controlling assets worth $1trn in the past two decades through his media-tech giant, SoftBank. He bankrolled Alibaba, China's internet colossus, before the world had heard about it; plotted with Steve Jobs to turn the iPhone into a wonder product; and financed hundreds of tech start-ups, fuelling the biggest boom Silicon Valley has ever seen.This book takes you on Masa's wild ride, from his birthplace in a Korean slum in post-war Japan to the modern-day temples of power. It speeds through Donald Trump's golden skyscraper in Manhattan, the royal palaces of Riyadh and the throne rooms of China's Marxist rulers; all places where Masa has deployed his unique blend of techno-optimism, financial engineering and insane risk-taking.In his own words: Masa is the world's craziest investor. He spent billions supporting the visions of founders like WeWork's Adam Neumann only to lose everything. Yet, despite the reverses, he's never abandoned his belief that technology, particularly artificial Intelligence, will change our lives for the better.Masa's story captures a 25 year-span of hyper-globalisation in which money, technologies and ideas flowed freely. He's made billions and lost billions during the dot.com bust, the global financial crisis, and the Covid pandemic. His is a story of constant reinvention and perpetual motion, ever seeking the Next Big Thing.As an ethnic Korean in Japan, Masa has overcome adversity and discrimination to become Japan's best known businessman and empire-builder but he remains an elusive, intensely private figure, an enigma to the western world. This book reveals the man behind the money, what drives him, why he matters, and what he plans for his next act.

From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times.One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an international Who's Who of our times. Lunch with the FT is a selection of the best: 52 classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. From Angela Merkel to Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Martin Amis to one of the Arab world's most notorious sons, this book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of or world's most powerful players.