Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Son’s track record includes big victories, like an early investment in the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. Son said in July after announcing the ARM deal. He did relatively little research on Yahoo itself, Mr. Miki recalled. “The goal was to become a 100 trillion-yen company,” Mr. Miki said, an amount equal to about $1 trillion. In 2006, he borrowed heavily to buy the Japanese arm of Vodafone, the British cellphone carrier, which was badly lagging two Japanese rivals.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2016 01:51 UTC