Masaru Ibuka co-founded the company what we now call Sony. As many other big companies, Sony’s history started low, with Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka founding Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation 1946. Masaru Ibuka is not as known as Akio Morita is, possibly because Ibuka left the company in 1976, 30 years after having found it (Bill Gates left Microsoft after 30 years as well). There is no particular reason for Ibuka’s leave, albeit at that time he was 68 years.
He didn’t have health issues and had lived 89 years. However, even after his leave, he maintained close ties with Akio Morita and was regarded as an “advisor” for the company. Do you know where this financial giant had started? In 1945, Masaru Ibuka decided to start a small, local business – a radio repair shop. He did so in a bomb-damaged building from Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1945. After one year, Akio Morita joined and they found together the father of the mighty Sony.