SoftBank Investment Failures
The cluster focuses on SoftBank's poor investment track record, including massive losses from bets on companies like WeWork and Uber, and debates on whether their funding is a red flag for startups.
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Why is SoftBank so bad at investing
Softbank is in a bit of financial trouble - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/softbank-vision-fund-loses...
I'll take a wild assed guess at it, what follows is pure speculation. Many of Softbank's portfolio companies are not doing well (e.g. Uber, WeWork), and they're starting to get a bit anxious about whether they'll be able to show the returns that investors are looking for.So they've turned to risky strategies which, in the short term, could show a high return on investment to keep their investors happy. Of course, when/if this unwinds, they could be in serious tr
Do we consider a softbank investment to be a red flag at this point?
Given the fact that SoftBank dwarfs all other funds (even combined) is it a realistic scenario?
"SoftBank Vision Fund" is all you need to know.
Sounds like a great investment for SoftBank
I mean... SoftBank sunk a lot of money into it. So, from SoftBank's perspective it is too big to fail...
Doesn't seem that SoftBank is doing a lot of due diligence to me.
It's SoftBank though, weird risk taking investments seems to be their jam.