It is exciting to see how his vision for the world is evolving. It is also interesting to note that this man definitely puts money where his mouth is. The SoftBank Vision investment fund ($100B) is larger than world wide VC funds ($65B). Clearly Masayoshi Son is in the infrastructure business and is in it for the greater good, absolutely.
Recent Interview:
[video=youtube;8je-JdrIZ3I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8je-JdrIZ3I[/video]
List of 2015-2017 investments thus far:
SoftBank Group - Wikipedia
Recent Interview:
[video=youtube;8je-JdrIZ3I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8je-JdrIZ3I[/video]
List of 2015-2017 investments thus far:
- Snapdeal - One of India's biggest online shopping sites
- OneWeb - Low-latency, high-speed broadband through satellites
- SoFi - US-based alt-lender
- WeWork Office space for companies around the world.
- ARM - Semiconductor IP
- Ola - Biggest ride-hailing cab firm
- Paytm - India's biggest digital payments startup
- Nvidia - Semiconductor (GPU) chips
- Guardant Health - Cancer Testing
- OSIsoft - Industrial Software
- Improbable - AR/VR
- Boston Dynamics - Robotics
- Cybereason - Israeli Cybersecurity Firm
- Brain Corp - Artificial Intelligence
- Plenty - Indoor Farming
- Nauto - Automotive Tech
- Grab - Taxi Hailing
- Kabbage - Small Business Lender
- Deliveroo - Food Delivery
- iRobot - Robotics
- Slack - Employee Comms Software
SoftBank Group - Wikipedia
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