Mar 19, 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (PT)
Join CFA Society San Diego for an in-person, member only book club event on Thursday, March 19th from 5:00 - 7:00pm. Featured book will be Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son from author Lionel Barber. Join us at Joya Kitchen!
Join us for an evening of books, discussion, and happy hour!
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Thursday, March 19th 5:00-7:00 pm
Joya Kitchen 10275 Science Center Dr. San Diego, CA 92121
About: Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son.
As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son.
In this “meticulously researched, balance, thoroughly readable” (Booklist, starred review) biography, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond to see how Son’s firm SoftBank has defied conventional wisdom and imposing odds to push global tech and commerce into the future.
From the dizzying highs of Uber, DoorDash, and Slack to the epic lows of WeWork and tech-infused dog-walking app Wag, Son and SoftBank have been at the center of cutting-edge capitalism’s absolute peaks and valleys. In the process, Son, son of a pachinko kingpin who grew up in a slum in Japan, has been a hero, a villain, and even a meme-ified hero to the internet tech- and finance-bro set all at once.
Based on in-depth research and eye-opening interviews, Gambling Man is “not only a first-rate biography of an elusive billionaire” (Bloomberg), it’s also an alarming true story of 21st-century commerce that will stick with you long after you turn the final page.
San Diego, CA, United States