2015 anecdote: Masayoshi Son raged at SoftBank Robotics staff over Pepper's language plans
airkatakana · x · 2026-09-28
An X user recounts a 2015 meeting with Masayoshi Son and SoftBank Robotics where employees said the Pepper robot's English version could ship within a year — and Son exploded, screaming that Pepper should speak French, Arabic and more, calling everyone incompetent. The reply adds: "he was right, everyone was incompetent."
Related event: Insider claims Son tore into SoftBank's Pepper robot team in 2015(2 posts)→
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