Taizo Son (孫泰蔵 손태장, born September 29, 1972) is a Japanese businessman of Korean ancestry.
During the project Taizo successfully managed 100 staff and launched Yahoo Japan within 3 months.
He then managed the company as CEO and it went public on Nippon New Market Hercules (which later became JASDAQ) on March 9, 2005.
[5] In 2023, he and Mistletoe director Atsushi Taira co-founded The Edgeof, an ecosystem builder and venture capital entity, and in the same year The Edgeof acquired SoftBank Ventures Asia, a wholly-owned SoftBank subsidiary, in order to establish a pan-Asian ecosystem for pioneering startups.
[6] He serves on the board of ETIC, an institute which provides young people with opportunities to develop their capabilities as social entrepreneurs.