You've made the boldest bets in tech history. What's the one you're genuinely glad you didn't make?
The bet I'm glad I didn't make was the one that would have killed me: going all-in at the absolute peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999-2000.
Everyone remembers I lost $70 billion in the crash - 99% of my wealth on paper. What they don't remember is that I could have lost it all. Every dollar. In early 2000, SoftBank was worth $190 billion. We owned Yahoo Japan, we owned huge st...