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How Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh Khalili

How Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh Khalili

Update: 2025-04-24
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Paris Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, the structural factors that allowed him to build an empire, and the many ways he’s shaped the modern tech industry.

Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and the author of Sinews of War and Trade and her forthcoming book Extractive Capitalism.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.

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How Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh Khalili

How Masayoshi Son Shaped the Tech Industry w/ Laleh Khalili

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