SoftBank's Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba's Ma

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Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group Corp's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son reiterated his belief in an instinct-led ...

TOKYO: Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group Corp's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son reiterated his belief in an instinct-led investing style, in a discussion with Alibaba Group Holding Inc's co-founder Jack Ma.

Ma said Son initially tried to invest US$50 million in the e-commerce firm, but that he declined saying it was as too large a sum - part of a pattern of offering big cheques to company founders that continued with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann. Son last month said he misjudged Neumann's character, after WeWork - formally The We Company - and other stuttering bets saw his US$100 billion Vision Fund report an US$8.9 billion second-quarter operating loss.

 

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