2024-10-31
39 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm head of programming Connor Boyle.
Coming up, Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times, joins us to discuss the story of one of the world's most influential financial movers and shakers, who you may have never even heard of.
Joining him to talk about it is Zanni Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of the Economist.
The life of Japan's Masayoshi Son, a business magnate and investor, is a story that's not only one of the major entrepreneurial success narratives of recent decades, but it also points towards the future of sectors such as tech, the global economy, and, of course, AI.
It's the focus of Lionel Barber's new book, Gambling man the Wild Ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son.
And recently he was live on stage with Zani Minton Beddoes for our Intelligence Squared live event at London's Tabernacle Theater to talk about it.
This recording is in three parts.
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Now let's join our host, Zanni Minton Beddoes, live on stage in conversation with Lionel Barber.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
It's lovely to be here.
It's very nice to be here with Lionel, who needs no introduction, but 15 years as editor of the Financial Times, I think no exaggeration till you say you are one of the great editors of your generation.
She says admiringly and somewhat enviously.
And I'm delighted to say that you're a friend and it's very, very nice to be here on the publication day of this, your second book and your first big biography.
And I would venture to suggest that more people in this audience know you, Lionel, well than know the subject of your biography well.
But I want to test that.