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Re:SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork ... by ericd on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:01PM (#22871388)
Do you know if the standard 10 year fund life was different back then? If not, I'm curious how that interacted with their relatively slow investments.

Maybe it's just that companies went public at a much earlier stage back then.

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Re:SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork ... by achillesheels on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:13PM (#22871527)
>Maybe it's just that companies went public at a much earlier stage back then.

This. My father worked for a few semiconductor startups in the 80's, e.g. Xicor. Liquidity events were trivial compared to now. Small company's with competency and focus could exit with a proprietary tech play which satisfied everyone all around (founders, vested employees, investors, industry). Rinse and repeat for two-three decades and we get the foundations for Information "Tech" startup culture.

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Re:SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork ... by Zach_the_Lizard on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:16PM (#22872156)
It's costlier to be a public company these days in terms of regulatory burden, so fewer companies in general are going public.

SOX in particular is expensive for smaller companies.

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