I dunno if he has any say anymore given that the company belongs to Softbank who will write the terms of the sale. And generally, it got passed around because

I dunno if he has any say anymore given that the company belongs to Softbank who will write the terms of the sale. And generally, it got passed around because there is valuable research IP that belongs to the company, which given the right market can be valuable, so in the spirit of capitalizing on it if that market realizes, companies either jump on it, or preemptively buy it for a later sale (which is no doubt what Softbank did)