To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.
It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.
Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.
SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.
I am the largest shareholder in SoftBank; I share the same interest as the other shareholders.
Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.
The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.
I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.
SoftBank is not a specialist on any instrument. We did not invent any instrument. Not the best player. But we would like to be a conductor of this information revolution.
