Gambling Man: The Secret Story of The World’s Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son by Lionel Barber

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️

Best for: you have to be in the start-up venture capitalist business to appreciate the tissue-paper billion dollar deal, the all-or-nothing gamble based on gut feelings,and the crazy mad man founders and even crazier investors

Best to: too detailed for the average joe on a don’t really need to know basis

Best as: so this is what it takes; missing your own wedding twice, a narcissistic belief in yourself as ultra indestructible, never wanting to step down, a burning inner drive always for something more and never enough

BATB lingering thought: all-in. I wonder how is his mental health, marriage life, and father-daughter relationships

Best quotes: “how to become somebody when you are born a nobody”

“Masa thinks that if something could happen, it should happen. And if it should happen, it will happen, and if it will happen, then in Masa’s mind, it’s already happened. He’s already visualized it.”

“Money is something I can make, or you can make, but that’s not something you should chase.”

“Life as a businessman was not about money, status, or reputation. It was about making others happy, especially those people who can’t give anything in return.”

“In a fight, who wins - the smart guy or the crazy guy?”

“There was a certain tragic quality to Masa’s endless ups and downs. Forever eyeing the future, he was incapable of dwelling on past or present accomplishments. It was a recipe doe perpetual dissatisfaction.”