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A comment on 2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [pdf].

Re:2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [... by moralestapia on Saturday June 27, 2020 @08:56PM (#23665955)
From the slides,

>5 turning points of SoftBank

>1981 Big bet after one month of business foundation

>1983 Fight against illness

>1994 IPO, ventured into US

>2001 Start broadband business

>2006 Acquired Vodafone KK

Lol, what about the one-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity in Alibaba, which they took probably by chance, and pretty much MADE the modern SoftBank.

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Re:2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [... by rpeden on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:04PM (#23665992)
Alibaba hadn't gone public yet when these slides were made, though, so had Softbank actually gotten any return on that investment yet?
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Re:2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [... by skbly7 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @09:01PM (#23665980)
Well, to be honest they acknowledged in the sides that any company's survival chances for 30 years are 0.02%.

They don't need to worry about all investments turning into multibragger.

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