Vision Fund Concepts

Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction

by David Enrich · 18 Feb 2020 · 399pp · 114,787 words

Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . and Are Ready to Do It Again, 2011, 100. Removing smoke detectors : Tom Braithwaite, “SoftBank’s $100bn Vision Fund Needs Wall St Trader to Come Good,” Financial Times, August 25, 2017. “Mr. Basis Point”: Suzi Ring, Gavin Finch, and Franz Wild, “From a $126

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie · 6 May 2019 · 328pp · 84,682 words

new markets then required additional expenses and investments. Overall, Uber has grown mostly because of generous capital providers (largely sovereign wealth funds and SoftBank’s Vision Fund). Investors seem to be betting on a winner-take-all-or-most outcome where Uber outlasts both digital and conventional competitors, and then eventually raises

The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words

it emerged that the buyer was Japan’s SoftBank Corp., led by the risk-loving billionaire Masayoshi Son. Reporters also learned that his $100 billion Vision Fund had simultaneously purchased billions of dollars of many of the underlying tech stocks. At face value that just sounds like two gigantic bets instead of

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The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen · 2 Nov 1999 · 435pp · 136,906 words

Allen, a businessman, to raise money (later through the March of Dimes) to fight for a cure for polio. Another ripple effect of FDR’s vision funded the work of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, the heroes whose efforts have nearly wiped the disease from the face of the earth. Like most

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen · 18 Feb 2015 · 435pp · 136,741 words

Allen, a businessman, to raise money (later through the March of Dimes) to fight for a cure for polio. Another ripple effect of FDR’s vision funded the work of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, the heroes whose efforts have nearly wiped the disease from the face of the earth. Like most

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad · 27 Sep 2021 · 661pp · 185,701 words

the other end of the spectrum is a case involving Japan’s SoftBank Group. Its risk-taking chairman, Masayoshi Son, set up the $100 billion Vision Fund, which came to be known for undertaking private equity investments in technology companies in their infancy. Early investments in companies such as Alibaba, Yahoo!, and

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster · 3 May 2021 · 245pp · 75,397 words

is based in Tokyo. I log into my computer and see the Rabbi is already online. He loves these calls. Wow. Earnings are a disaster. Vision Fund lost close to $18 billion in the most recent fiscal year, triggering the worst loss ever for the Japanese company. SoftBank had to write down

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big unicorns it owned. WeWork’s value has fallen by 95% this year. Masa Son concedes he’s unlikely to draw outside investors for another Vision Fund, an initiative he once proclaimed as the future of SoftBank as it moved away from the telecom business. About fifteen of the fund’s start

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tells his online audience, “unicorns that had been climbing uphill hard are suddenly faced with a coronavirus valley, and they are falling into that valley.” “Vision Fund’s results are not something to be proud of,” he says. “If the results are bad, you can’t raise money from investors. Things aren

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Justice (DOJ) and the SEC. According to The Guardian newspaper, reporting on this latest lawsuit, “Mr. Neumann put his trust in [SoftBank and SoftBank’s Vision Fund] to be stewards of WeWork, which he and thousands of others had worked so hard to build,” only to be met with “brazen” abuses. It

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words

a slew of foreign investment. SenseTime’s investors include Qualcomm, Fidelity International, Silver Lake Partners (based in Menlo Park, California), and Japan’s SoftBank Vision Fund. SoftBank’s Vision Fund has ties to Saudi wealth, and spans the globe in its international influence—investing in companies from Alibaba to WeWork and Slack. In one

Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age

by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words

SpaceX. An employee might go home for a few hours to sleep, but one’s mind never strayed far from the job. Musk provided the vision, funding, and intense focus on building a reusable orbital rocket. He frequently led technical meetings and often made the most difficult decisions. And always, he pushed

Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic

by Hugh Sinclair · 4 Oct 2012 · 346pp · 101,763 words

: International Labour Office, 2011). Only one microfinance fund has explicit policies regarding child labor: World Vision, which operates a number of MFIs through its subsidiary Vision Fund International. 8. Marguerite Robinson, The Microfinance Revolution, vol. 2, Lessons from Indonesia (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2002). 9. See http://indiamicrofinance.com/bono-quote