 "Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group Chairman")
With the growing backlash against Saudi Arabia over the murder of government critic Jamal Khashoggi, SoftBank Group Corp. faces tough decisions in its relationship with the kingdom.
Founder Masayoshi Son has had particularly close ties to Saudi Arabia ever since now-Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman agreed to make Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) the largest investor in SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund. That fund is now the cornerstone of SoftBank as Son uses the cash to take major stakes in tech companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and WeWork Cos.
But the brutal killing has set off a debate over
