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Is this the same Softbank, of WeWork fame? If so, this will be fun to watch!
by reidjs 5y ago
Is this the same Softbank, of WeWork fame? If so, this will be fun to watch!
- Apocryphon 5y agoThey're a massive telecom in addition to a massive investment fund. They previously owned Sprint. They're a huge corporation in general, that's how they started the Vision Fund in the first place.
- bdcravens 5y agoAlso of Uber and Slack fame. And that's just their VC arm. The mobile branch of the company is of Vodaphone fame.
- mynameisvlad 5y agoOnly in Japan. Vodafone itself is a British company; they just sold their Japanese arm (Vodafone Japan) to SoftBank who eventually rebranded it as SoftBank Mobile.
- threeseed 5y agoThe whole point of VC is that some of the bets you make will turn out wrong. But that it is more than offset by all of the good bets.
- romwell 5y agoSoftbank of everything-in-Japan fame. It's a Keiretsu[1], so its reach can be surprising. So, yes, the same Softbank, also of Alibaba and T-Mobile fame (25% each). [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu