Masayoshi Son - what the fuck is his problem?

Masayoshi Son made one of the greatest investments of all time when he turned $20M into $100B with Alibaba. But recently, his track record has been shit. SoftBank's Vision Fund has had made serious blunders with WeWork and other failed investments.

Why are people stupid enough to fund WeWork and Juicero and Quibi? Or even "legit" publicly traded "tech" companies like The RealReal or Casper? Or even Uber or Lyft or DoorDash? What the fuck is wrong with institutional investors?

 
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I do get the appeal of having very quick, entertaining shows that you can watch for 15 min end to end while eating a meal.

That being said, I can also just continue to watch youtube videos of Gordon Ramsay going ballistic for free, so the business model's not all that competitive.

"one for the money two for the better green 3 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine" - M.F. Doom
 

Turning 20m to 100b will give you a lot of leeway with gps lol - especially in the current capital rich but opportunity scarce environment. Then again, maybe we're just too rarted to see Masayoshi Son's 200iq bobby axelrod plays

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
 

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