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Re:Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly ... by goatinaboat on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:22AM (#20927024)
SoftBank business model: make an investment at valuation X. Make another investment at valuation 2X. Declare that the value of the first investment has doubled!

The wheels come off when anyone else gets to value the investment. That’s happening now. I wonder how other SoftBank businesses like ARM will be impacted.

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Re:Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly ... by onion2k on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @07:58AM (#20927221)
I wonder how other SoftBank businesses like ARM will be impacted.

I don't think many investors dispute the ~$28b valuation that Softbank paid for ARM.

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Re:Troubles Mount for the We Company as Softbank Reportedly ... by antoniuschan99 on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:55PM (#20930309)
ARM might be king now, but looking into RiSC-V and the Made In China 2025 initiative, I wonder what the landscape will be like in the future

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20838030

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