https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

> s of October 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Son's net worth at US$23.1 billion, making him the second richest man in Japan and 68th richest person in the world,[1] despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).[4]

After that the big success came with investment in Ali Baba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group

> In October 1999, SoftBank became a holding company.[21] In 2000, SoftBank made its most successful investment – $20 million to a then-fledgling Chinese Internet venture called Alibaba.[22] This investment turned into $60 billion when Alibaba went public in September 2014.[23][24]

ByteDance, Grab, Ola, Uber, Opendoor, Slack, DoorDash, Didi, Coupang were/are all great bets.

According to CrunchBase (https://news.crunchbase.com/news/softbank-vision-fund-strate...), as of March 31, 2021 Vision Fund 1 was worth $146.5 billion from $86.2 billion in initial investment. I don't know enough about the space to judge whether that is considered good enough or not.

My brother was a buy side banker at softbank, we all know the kind of debauchery that went on in there.

Now, let’s look at next 5 years. Would you be willing to bet that sp500 continues its streak? Would all macro-economic coincidences and government actions continue in same manner for next 5 years?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/stock-picking-has-a-terrible...

0 - https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/saudi-arabia-build...

1 - https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/saudi-arabia...

Cities are generally round for a good reason. You put the important stuff in the middle and your average transit trip remains as low as possible. Straight lines do the opposite, as you guarantee that each new resident is in literally the worst possible position for transit possible, and you over tax the center’s transit in order to move people to the ends of the line.

Oh, and consider the cost for things like sewage and water. They’re a bit component of a city’s cost, and here they’re laid out as inefficiently as possible.

Obviously line is not the only thing that can provide these benefits. How about a large square or circle with the center purely reserved for green space. Anything beats the shitty cities we have today where people stay outside because they cant afford the rent and have to travel towards the center for work.

Also Crunchbase is imperfect data so those numbers could be WAY off for all we know.

But consider how big they are, probably not too bad?

Take a look at these comical slides from Softbank back when they took over WeWork after it collapsed: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-best-slides-from-softba...

If we talk news worthy stuff, ByteDance could be the biggest name on that list ?

They are hiring their own drivers and building their own delivery hubs, meaning products you order are coming from their hubs, not from CVS or Walmart. They have more control over efficiency.

They even acquired BevMo and are converting those into hubs.

But it comes down to execution and it will be interesting to see the space in another 5 years.