Mar 13, 2021
Listeners to our series on Softbank Vision Fund will be interested - albeit perhaps not surprised - to hear that one of its major investments, Greensill Capital, which we covered in the episode "The Next Financial Crisis", has imploded dramatically. We discuss it - and a new court ruling on another Softbank...
Dec 21, 2020
A bumper episode with a crop of interesting news stories to
round out the year:
-> Uber sells its self-driving car section, and Softbank sells
robot company Boston Dynamics. What can we infer from these moves
about the state of the tech sector?
-> Reports show income inequality rising since 1975 has resulted
in $47...
Nov 19, 2020
To close our series on Softbank's Vision Fund, I interviewed tech journalist and scholar Edward Ongweso Jr. of "This Machine Kills" podcast about Softbank, the corrosive nature of VC on the tech sector and our society, and the Vision that Masoyoshi Son really dreams of... along with whether it will all fall apart,...
Nov 11, 2020
Over the course of this series, we've described how Softbank's $100bn Vision Fund promised to invest in the future and failed to deliver. In this episode, we ask: why should we care? We discuss the wider landscape of technology and innovation, and question why it can't deliver the things we really need.