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Interesting. He seemed uniquely suited to do the job, with a commercial background in both old telecom and new cloud. Perhaps this just didn't translate to pi
by mathattack 10y ago
Interesting. He seemed uniquely suited to do the job, with a commercial background in both old telecom and new cloud. Perhaps this just didn't translate to picking companies to buy.
- denzil_correa 10y agoThis is still behind a paywall. You can search for the WSJ title and follow a search engine link to bypass this.
- mathattack 10y agoThanks. That's what I copy/pasted, but I guess the link refreshes.
- pc86 10y agoThere is a web link under the article that achieves the same result.
- denzil_correa 10y agoWhich link? I am curious.
- kartD 10y agoCan we really judge his investments just yet? There haven't been any exits/bankruptcies just yet (apart from Housing.com) , so it's too early to judge. And it looks like he left over disagreements with how soon he would takeover from Masayoshi Son.
- mathattack 10y agoMy (uninformed) read was that was allowing him to save face. You are right, though. It can take a while to determine effectiveness of acquisitions. Perhaps it was performance on the large ones? It could also be cultural. It's very hard for foreigners to run Japanese companies, even iconoclastic ones.
- RaSoJo 10y agoLet us not forget about the allegations of malpractice, even though he has been given a clean chit by an "internal" investigation. There might be more to it than meets the eye. http://qz.com/711829/softbank-says-an-internal-investigation-found-coo-nikesh-arora-has-done-nothing-wrong/ http://qz.com/711829/softbank-says-an-internal-investigation...
- mathattack 10y agoYes. At the very least it's an angry investor. Even if you're in the right, it's hard to stave off angry owners. (They are after all, the owners)