SoftBank’s Masa Son under pressure
Behind the Money17 Syys 2019

SoftBank’s Masa Son under pressure

WeWork was long considered one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2019. For SoftBank, WeWork’s biggest outside investor, the listing would be the moment it made a return on the nearly $11bn it poured into the shared-office provider. Now, as WeWork struggles to take the company public, the spotlight is on SoftBank’s Masa Son and his billion-dollar bets.


Further FT reading:

SoftBank investors brace for Vision Fund writedowns

https://www.ft.com/content/ccdaa9c6-d60d-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77


WeWork postpones IPO after chilly response from investors

https://www.ft.com/content/b869bc42-d8d9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17


WeWork: the ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market

https://www.ft.com/content/0e426c90-8c45-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972


SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world

https://www.ft.com/content/71ad7cda-6ef4-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914


Some of Aimee’s favourite FT reads:

Warren Buffett: ‘I’m having more fun than any 88-year-old int he world’

https://www.ft.com/content/40b9b356-661e-11e9-a79d-04f350474d62


The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work

https://www.ft.com/content/1e8293f4-a1db-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1


Finding my Armenia, a century after the genocide

https://www.ft.com/content/2e2f38b0-e7a1-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3


How Purdue’s ‘one-two’ punch fuelled the market for opioids

https://www.ft.com/content/8e64ec9c-b133-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c


Angola 3 inmate: from solitary cell to centre of the community

https://www.ft.com/content/72a0983a-9f7d-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946

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