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BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JANUARY 10, 2000 ISSUE COVER STORY Rising Son KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Shares up more than 1, 200%, to $795 Created a powerful Net empire by forging links between his 100-plus Net companies in the U.S. and Japan It's good to be MASAYOSHI SON. The scrappy Tokyo-based founder of Internet phenom Softbank is now worth about $4 billion. And in 1999 Son finally quelled critics who once ...