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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:23PM (#20640659)
The Vision Fund is $100 billion dollars, which is ludicrous by VC standards. Investing that sort of money sensibly, particularly if you limit yourself to IT startups (which historically don't need that much capital compared to, say, oil exploration or an iron ore mine), is not easy.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by mbesto on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:22AM (#20644242)
Forget how the saying goes, but it's something along the lines of:

If you are worth $100M then your goal is to grow that to $1B. If you are worth $1B then your goal is now to lose it.

At some point capital has diminishing returns.

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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by compsciphd on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:27PM (#20640685)
I think I read recently that buffet is sitting on an equivalent amount of cash, waiting for the right investment
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by sytelus on Thursday August 08, 2019 @05:24AM (#20642963)
Every big player is sitting on approximately that much cash: MSFT, APPL, GOOG. There is probably literally trillion dollars lying around in mostly liquid assets trying to find better long term opportunity. I think the productivity in last decade had been amazing but no one knows where to invest all these extra earnings they have had.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by skinnymuch on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:40AM (#20653730)
Buffett did lose billions on Kraft Heinz which we’re huge purchases costing tens of billions.
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by eindiran on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:42PM (#20640763)
At least as recently as May 2017 that was true: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/warren-buffett-reveals-whats...
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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by dgacmu on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:09PM (#20640929)
Buffet is at 122B now: https://www.google.com/amp/s/markets.businessinsider.com/amp...

But he invests differently - often buying entire, functioning companies.

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Re:Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns by alexnewman on Thursday August 08, 2019 @01:33AM (#20642102)
Warren holding cash is a statement on equity values IMHO. This is not financial advice.
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