The Most Mindnumbing of Office Tasks Made One Man $360 Million

  • Takahashi’s consultancy almost collapsed in financial crisis
  • Former Masa Son employee shifted to robotic process automation
Tomomichi TakahashiPhotographer: Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg
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Tomomichi Takahashi became a multimillionaire by focusing on the dullest of white-collar tasks.

The former SoftBank Group Corp. employee was an early mover into what’s called robotic process automation, the use of software bots to automate repetitive operations.