The mysterious Indian behind Masayoshi Son: It was his idea to sell ARM and withdraw Ali.

It is said that behind every successful man, there is a woman who silently supports him, but for super bosses, it may not be enough to have a woman who silently supports him, and a military trader is needed to help him steer.

So is Masayoshi Son. There are mysterious traders behind Softbank Capital Empire.

I don't know if I have a soft spot for Indians. Masayoshi son reorganized twice, and the selected leaders were all Indians.

The first is nikesh arora, former CBO (Chief Brand Officer) of Google. On 20 14, Masayoshi son hired him to join the board of directors to be responsible for the reconstruction and investment operation of the management team. At that time, he was regarded as Sun Zhengyi's successor.

Perhaps it is this person's "patriotic feelings" generate. After he took office, Softbank invested in a large number of projects in India. As a result, the rate of return is far below the expectations of shareholders. Not only the decision-making ability is questioned, but also the investment motivation is questioned. After only two years in Softbank, nikesh arora was kicked out by Softbank's CEO and Chief Risk Officer.

A few months after nikesh arora, the second Indian, Akshay Nahta, arrived. This guy seems to be more trustworthy than his compatriots, because Masayoshi Son gave him the task of completing the strategic transformation of Softbank Group.

Akshay Nahta was born in a jeweler's family in Mumbai. She is 40 years old. In 2002, Nahta graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the first place in his class, and received a bachelor's degree and an engineering research scholarship.

After that, Nahta went to MIT to study for a postgraduate degree in computer science and electronic engineering. Indians stole the show at a seminar at Deutsche Bank. At the suggestion of MIT alumni, Nahta began to study finance.

After graduating from graduate school, Deutsche Bank hired him with a high salary and appointed him as a senior trader. In 2006, Nahta was sent to Hong Kong as an assistant to Anshu Jain, head of investment banking department of Hong Kong branch, and later became an assistant to Misra, president of Deutsche Bank Asia.

In 20 10, Nakhta officially resigned from Deutsche Bank and went to London to set up his own hedge fund company Knight Assets. In 20 16, he went to Tokyo to see Masayoshi Son, hoping that the billionaire would invest in his fund.

It was this meeting that completely changed the development path of him, Masayoshi Son and Softbank Group.

After the conversation, Masayoshi Son not only didn't invest in Naheta, but persuaded him to join Softbank. After careful consideration, in 20 17, Nakhta dissolved its own fund and joined Softbank Group.

At that time, Softbank Group had just invested $0.00 billion in 20 16, and the head of the fund happened to be Misra, the boss of Nakhta in Deutsche Bank.

Interestingly, after joining Softbank, Nahta was the senior vice president of the group, in charge of the asset management department, and theoretically became the boss of Misra.

At that time, all the top executives of Softbank were former executives of Deutsche Bank, besides Nahta and Misra, there were also Munish Valma, Saleh Romeh, Colin Van, Munish Valma and kabir Misra.

It can be said that the "German gang" is very powerful in Softbank, and they are very United.

Just like this, as a recognized "ability leader" in this small circle, Nahta's style in Softbank is very tough, and he is willing to listen to the opinions of his subordinates but takes a negative attitude after listening to them every time, and his impression among his colleagues is not friendly.

However, both his clients and the founders of the company he invested in think that he is a professional and efficient person.

Surrounded by executives and supported by customers, Nakhta's remarks became the decisive decision-making basis within Softbank.

Peng Bo once wrote in an exclusive interview with People: Perhaps the market doesn't know that in Softbank, the person who really influenced the decision-making in the past two years is not Sun Zhengyi, nor a senior analyst, banker or lawyer of this capital empire, but a person who has just joined Softbank for three years.

There is no doubt that this person is Nahta.

According to Bloomberg's interview article, in recent years, several big moves of Softbank that caused a sensation in the world all came from Nahta's decision-making plan. These include:

1. Sell ARM to NVIDIA. In September, Softbank Group decided to sell the British chip giant ARM acquired in 20 16 for $32 billion to its competitor NVIDIA for $40 billion. This incident not only shocked the whole chip industry, but also caused global concern and controversy.

2. Withdraw to Ali. In March of this year, Sun Zhengyi sold $654.38+0.5 billion in Ali stock, cashing in hundreds of billions of dollars. Three months later, Masayoshi Son announced his withdrawal from the board of directors of Ali Group. At this point, the capitalists who made their fortune by Ali have little connection with Ali.

Making these two decisions is closely related to Naheta's strategic adjustment to Softbank Group-he wants to make Softbank a pure investment capital empire and doesn't want to spend too much energy in enterprise management. Moreover, Softbank's poor performance and cash flow shortage in the past two years have just provided it with an excellent opportunity.

Of course, many investment decisions of Nahta are also controversial. For example, at the end of last year, we invested US$ 654.38 billion in the German payment company Wirecard, but as we all know, Wirecard was caught in a storm of fraud and fraud at that time, and now it has gone bankrupt. This single investment was interpreted by the outside world as the "Deutsche Bank Gang" headed by Nahta giving blood to its old club-because Deutsche Bank is one of the major shareholders of Wirecard.

For another example, in April this year, Softbank's Vision Fund invested billions of dollars in OYO, India's largest hotel chain. At that time, OYO was also in dire straits because of the epidemic. Only two months after the investment, OYO closed hundreds of hotels in Asia and is still in deep debt crisis. Many shareholders of Softbank believe that this is a "rescue action" of Naheta to the motherland enterprises, rather than a decision after rigorous analysis.

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