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Softbank 's founder, Masayoshi Son , was a business prodigy.
Son was born in Japan in 1957 , and his grandparents were immigrants from Korea .
At age 16 , he read a book by Dan Fujita , the founder of Japan 's McDonald's .
Son decided to follow Fujita 's advice and study both computer science and English .
He blew through high school in just three weeks and passed the college entrance exam.
SoftBank is the 72nd largest company in the world and the 7th largest in Japan .
SoftBank Group has an annual revenue of $82 billion , making up 72% of the world's biggest company.
The company also owns Sprint , Sprint , Virgin Mobile and Boston Dynamics .
Softbank Vision Fund aims to raise $100 billion in 2017 .
The Vision Fund has a 15% share in Uber , 20% share of Flipkart , 5% of NVIDIA , and 5% shares in Slack .
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