Inside two weeks of turmoil at SoftBank, as Masayoshi Son was forced to take drastic action, including share buybacks, to shore up confidence in his tech empire
TIL that Masa Son pledged some of his own stake in Softbank as collateral to help Ritesh Agarwal of Oyo secure funds to up his (Ritesh's) stake. Story in @FT by @KanaInagaki @Urbandirt @ArashMassoudi https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The two weeks of turmoil that squeezed SoftBank's Masayoshi Son The man who has become a symbol for bombastic, freewheeling dealmaking has since showed signs of a shift, including by cutting losses on money-burning startups. w @KanaInagaki @Urbandirt https://www.ft.com/...
As coronavirus spread across the globe, Masayoshi Son was confronting a different crisis at SoftBank. Was the Japanese billionaire who lost $70bn in the dotcom crash facing another reckoning? https://www.ft.com/...