Education in the United States
At age 16 in 1973, Son dropped out of high school in Japan and relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States to advance his education, driven by a desire to immerse himself in American innovation and resolve personal identity challenges related to his Korean heritage.[16] He enrolled at Serramonte High School south of San Francisco, where his prior self-study enabled him to pass final exams and graduate in approximately two to three weeks.[17] [18]After high school, Son attended Holy Names College, a local institution, for two years before transferring as a junior to the University of California, Berkeley, around 1977, to study economics and computer science.[19] [2] During his time at Berkeley, he demonstrated early entrepreneurial aptitude by inventing an electronic pocket translator—a multilingual device that converted speech and text—developed with professor assistance, and selling its patent to Sharp Corporation for roughly $1 million in 1979.[20] [21] These inventions, including subsequent ones like voice synthesis technology, generated approximately $3.2 million in total revenue, funding his tuition and living expenses without reliance on family support.[22]Son also launched small businesses at Berkeley, such as software leasing ventures, capitalizing on the emerging personal computer revolution he observed firsthand.[17] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980 at age 23, after which he returned to Japan to establish his first company.[23] [1]
https://grokipedia.com/page/Masayoshi_Son
https://group.softbank/en/about/officer/son
