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  “50x Bigger Than Dot-Com”: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son’s Bold AI Prediction (2026) Picture this: You’re sitting in Paris. A 68-year-old Japanese billionaire leans into a CNBC microphone and drops a sentence that stops investors mid-scroll. “I think this is like more than 10x, probably 50x bigger than dot-com.” That’s Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank, one of the world’s most consequential tech investors, speaking on June 1, 2026. His audience? French President Emmanuel Macron, global media, and anyone paying attention to where the future is heading. If you lived through the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s, you remember the frenzy: Pets.com Super Bowl ads, billion-dollar valuations for startups with zero revenue, and then, the crash. The Nasdaq lost nearly 80% of its value. Thousands of companies evaporated. Careers were upended. Son remembers too. He lived it. And he’s telling you this time is not just bigger. It’s  fifty times bigger . That’s a stagger...