Mr Arora, President of SOFTBANK, why go? Masayoshi Son-Softbank, Masayoshi Son-IT information
Japan CEO Masayoshi Son of SOFTBANK Group announced his resignation yesterday, hand-picked successor, Nikesh Arora post of President of SOFTBANK, soft silver will remain as consultants.
SOFTBANK said today that Arora to resign is his son disagree on the question of when to take over. Masayoshi Son said in a statement, he did not want to let the Arora for too long at the top.
Host, President of SOFTBANK hopes eventually to resign
According to Bloomberg, and Masayoshi Son conversation Arora recently resigned last month's outburst. The report said:
A month ago, Arora and Masayoshi Son is preparing in California for this year's general meeting of shareholders. At that time, a slide show on Sun's long-term plan, to control to the successor company. Previously, said Masayoshi Son, who will be 60 years old, according to plan, only 15 months of his term.
Arora now asks, are you ready? Sun's answer is no.
Arora asked, is a year or two years? Sun's answer is that five to 10 years.
Arora this conversation is very disappointed with the result, but choose to continue to maintain close relations with Sun.
Bloomberg quoted Arora says: "Sun working 18 hours a day, energetic, says he wants to continue. ”
This is no exaggeration, media have reported that Masayoshi Son in college just like Superman, tireless, and only slept 3 hours a day on average, a maximum of no more than 5 hours.
Quoted by the Wall Street Journal, now 58 years old, Masayoshi Son, said: "I had thought when I am 60 years old no longer served as CEO, but now it seems that I was still very young, so to continue momentum. ”
In addition, after was SOFTBANK shareholders questioned Arora part of investment decisions in conflicts of interest, reported today in the Wall Street Journal, also suggests this or one of the Arora's reasons for leaving. But Masayoshi Son said yesterday, Arora's resignation and investigate allegations and irrelevant.
Masayoshi Son said, not in this year's shareholders ' meeting appoints new President, Board members Ron Fisher and Baer Capital Partners founder, Alok Sama will deal with SOFTBANK's overseas investment business, Arora after the outgoing President will continue to provide consultant services to SOFTBANK.
Japanese takes charge is hard to find a successor to hot spots
Bloomberg reports that Arora abruptly left Japan company is hard to find the successor of topics again being pushed up hot spots. The report noted that many Japan company run by older entrepreneurs, for example, owns brands such as UNIQLO Japan fast retailing co (Fast Retailing) CEO, Japan's richest man, Yanai (Tadashi Yanai) is 67 years old.
Earlier media reports said 2015 according to Forbes rich list, Korea top ten list, 9 are Inheritors. By comparison, Japan top ten list, only two seem to be heir. Most of these self-made founder, mostly over the age of 60.
(Forbes, Japan rich lists in 2015)
Bloomberg quoted JP Morgan analyst Dairo Murata said, run by the founder's Japan company, 5-10 years in the future, succession planning will be the biggest problem. For investors, founder of the old risk of a successor could not be found would surfaced slowly.
Arora has not helped SOFTBANK relief debts high pressure
Before joining SOFTBANK July 2014, Arora in Google for almost 10 years, is the highest annual salary in 2012, Google executives. Upon resignation, Arora is Google's Chief business officer, CEO Larry one of the right-hand Page, Google with heads of leading Wall Street.
Arora from Google is able to catch the wave of Executive defections surges. Android in Chief Andy Rubin separated in 2013, long responsible for Google's Susan Wojcicki is also advertising in February 2014 to move on to the YouTube video site. In April, the social network services Executive Vic Gundotra also announced.
The second half of 2014, joined SOFTBANK Arora as Deputy Chairman in charge of the Japan investment strategy of the company, and in May last year, was promoted to President of the company. SOFTBANK has said publicly, Arora is expected to become his successor.
Arora is one of the world's highest-paid executives in 2014 and in 2015 to pay $ 135 million and $ 73 million, respectively.
But SOFTBANK's operations in recent years appeared to be less optimistic.
In October 2012 of $ 21.6 billion for United States after control of the fourth-largest telecommunications company Sprint, SOFTBANK's debt burden increased significantly. According to Bloomberg statistics, SOFTBANK servicing debt rose by more than twice times, staggering 11.92 trillion yen (US $ 108 billion). Barron said the 2016 fiscal year Sprint give Softbank a negative cash flow of $ 5.65 billion. Son also said in February: it may take two years to address the loss of customers and loss of time.
Wall Street stories mentioned yesterday, SOFTBANK recently because of heavy selling of the assets "albatross" Sprint's debt pressures. Within three days at the beginning of June, SOFTBANK Ali, by selling shares, cashing $ 10 billion. SOFTBANK said, hoping that reducing Ali shares more funds to improve their balance sheets, and other strategic investments to create more flexible space.
Tencent-led consortium on Tuesday announced $ 8.6 billion acquisition of Supercell84.3% shares, also means that SOFTBANK shares will be taken over by the company on a Supercell. SOFTBANK in 2013 for $ 1.53 billion for a Supercell 51% interest, additional investment in June last year, raising their holdings of 22% shares to 73%.
Coupled with the sale of shares of game developer GungHo Online Entertainment is planned, SOFTBANK's total cash volume will reach 20 billion dollars.
Comment according to Reuters, sell the quality of assets to make SOFTBANK from acquiring Sprint in the mire of the back on its feet. According to the United Kingdom by the financial times estimates, according to Masayoshi Son, currently in the United States telecommunications price war burn speeds, Sprint may run out of money until the end of 2016.
软银总裁阿罗拉为何突然下台？都怪孙正义 - 软银,孙正义 - IT资讯
日本软银集团CEO孙正义亲自挑选的接班人Nikesh Arora昨天宣布辞职软银总裁一职，此后仍将担任软银顾问。
软银今天表示，Arora辞职的原因是他和孙正义在何时接班的问题上存在分歧。孙正义在声明中表示，他不想让Arora为最高职位等的太久。
软银总裁上位希望破灭终辞职
据彭博报道，上月和孙正义的一次谈话是Arora日前辞职的导火索。该报道称：
一个月前，孙正义和Arora正在加州为今年的股东大会做准备。当时，一张幻灯片展示了孙的长期计划，要把公司控制权交给继任者。对此前表态将于60岁卸任的孙正义来说，按计划，其任期只剩下15个月。
Arora当下询问，你准备好了吗？孙的答案是，没有。
Arora追问，是一年还是两年？孙的回答是，五年到十年。
Arora对这次谈话结果十分失望，但选择继续保持和孙的亲密关系。
彭博援引Arora表示：“孙每天工作18小时，精力充沛，他说想要继续下去。”
这个数据并不夸张，媒体早就报道，孙正义在大学期间就像超人一样不知疲倦，平均每天只睡3小时，最多也不超过5小时。
《华尔街日报》援引现年58岁的孙正义称：“我曾经考虑在我六十岁的时候不再担任CEO，但是现在看来我还十分年轻，因此还有继续干下去的动力。”
另外，此前曾有软银股东质疑Arora部分投资决定存在利益冲突，《华尔街日报》在今日报道中也暗示了这或为Arora的离职原因之一。但孙正义昨日表态，Arora的辞职和调查指控并无关联。
孙正义称，不会在今次股东大会上任命新总裁，董事会成员Ron Fisher和Baer Capital Partners创始人Alok Sama将负责处理软银海外投资业务，Arora卸任总裁后则将继续为软银提供顾问服务。
日企掌门难觅继承者成热点
彭博报道称，Arora的突然宣布离职令日本公司难寻继承者的话题再度被推上热点。该报道指出，不少日本公司都由年迈的企业家掌管，比如旗下拥有优衣库等品牌的日本迅销有限公司(Fast Retailing)CEO，日本首富柳井正（Tadashi Yanai）已经67岁高龄。
媒体稍早报道称，根据福布斯2015年富豪排行榜，韩国前十名富豪中，9个都是继承者。对比来看，日本前十名富豪中，似乎只有两名是继承人。而这些大多白手起家的创始人大多都年过60。
（福布斯日本富豪排行榜2015）
彭博援引摩根大通分析师Dairo Murata表示，对于由创始人掌管的日本公司来说，未来5-10年内，继承人计划将是最大的问题。对投资者来说，年迈的创始人找不到继任者的风险将慢慢浮出水面。
Arora尚未帮助软银解困债务高压
2014年7月加入软银之前，Arora在谷歌工作近10年，是2012年谷歌年薪最高的高管。辞职时，Arora是谷歌首席业务官，CEO Larry Page的得力干将之一，也是谷歌与华尔街联系的主要负责人。
Arora离开谷歌算是赶上了一波高管离职潮。安卓操作系统主管Andy Rubin在2013年离职，长期负责谷歌广告业务的Susan Wojcicki也在2014年2月跳槽至YouTube视频网站。同年4月，社交网络服务主管Vic Gundotra也宣布离职。
2014年下半年，加入软银任职副董事长的Arora负责这家日本公司的投资战略，并于去年5月被提升为公司总裁。孙正义曾公开表示，Arora有望成为他的接班人。
Arora也是全球薪资最高的高管之一，2014年和2015年的薪水分别达到了1.35亿美元和7300万美元。
但软银近年来的业务情况似乎并不怎么乐观。
2012年10月斥资216亿美元获得美国第四大电信公司Sprint的控股权之后，软银的债务负担大幅增长。根据彭博社的统计，软银付息债务自此增长了两倍以上，达到惊人的11.92万亿日元（合1080亿美元）。巴伦周刊曾称，2016财年Sprint给软银带来了56.5亿美元的负现金流。孙正义也曾在今年2月表示：可能需要两年的时间来解决客户流失及亏损问题。
华尔街见闻昨日提及，软银近期大举抛售优质资产正是因为“大包袱”Sprint的债务压力。在6月初的三天内，软银就通过抛售阿里股份，套现100亿美元。软银当时表示，希望通过减持阿里股份套现更多资金，以改善自己的资产负债表，并为进行其他战略性投资创造更大的灵活空间。
而周二腾讯领衔的财团宣布86亿美元收购Supercell84.3%股份，也意味着软银在Supercell上的股份将由腾讯接手。软银曾于2013年斥资15.3亿美元获得Supercell 51%的股权，去年6月又追加投资，增持22%股权至73%。
再加上出售游戏开发商GungHo Online Entertainment股票的套现计划，软银的整体套现规模将达到200亿美金。
按照路透社此前的评论，出售所持有的优质资产才能让软银从收购Sprint带来的泥潭中重新站起来。而据英国《金融时报》的估算，按照目前孙正义在美国发起电信价格战的烧钱速度，Sprint到2016年底就可能耗尽资金。