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If you don’t foresee a downround risk and huge pressure to grow as part of a high valuation raise, you’re way out of your depth. My impression is that SoftBank
by nihonde 8y ago
If you don’t foresee a downround risk and huge pressure to grow as part of a high valuation raise, you’re way out of your depth. My impression is that SoftBank is very effective at hedging entire markets and using (gullible? desperate?) founders as a stalking horse to push stronger competitors that they’ve also invested in. I think it’s a solid investment strategy when you’re placing a lot of capital.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoHorrible track record they have. See the latest dot com crash, Alibaba, a $20 million investment saved them. Otherwise they lost all
- nihonde 8y agoI honestly don’t know what their returns will be on the latest fund, but it doesn’t seem to reflect anything like your (extremely vague) take so far. https://www.ft.com/content/c2fe7814-536a-11e8-b3ee-41e0209208ec https://www.ft.com/content/c2fe7814-536a-11e8-b3ee-41e020920...