{"id":942199,"date":"2025-06-30T07:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942199"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:20:57","slug":"masayoshi-son-hints-at-succession-plan-while-chasing-ai-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/masayoshi-son-hints-at-succession-plan-while-chasing-ai-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Masayoshi Son hints at succession plan while chasing AI ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son acknowledged the outlines of a succession plan at SoftBank Group Corp., addressing what may be investors\u2019 single biggest concern regarding the long-term future of the Japanese company. <\/p>\n<p>Son said he plans to hold SoftBank\u2019s reins another ten years, but added he has several candidates for its next chief in mind from within the technology group. The candidates work alongside the billionaire every day, although he hasn\u2019t disclosed who they are to anyone, the 67-year-old said during a general shareholders\u2019 meeting in Tokyo on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masayoshi Son acknowledged the outlines of a succession plan at SoftBank Group Corp., addressing what may be investors\u2019 single biggest concern regarding the long-term future of the Japanese company. Son said he plans to hold SoftBank\u2019s reins another ten years, but added he has several candidates for its next chief in mind from within the technology group. The candidates work alongside the billionaire every day, although he hasn\u2019t disclosed who they are to anyone, the 67-year-old said during a general shareholders\u2019 meeting in Tokyo on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}