TO New Financial Times profile Mayayoshi Son’s video begins with the SoftBank CEO seemingly hitting rock bottom, staring at his “ugly” face on Zoom and saying to himself, “I haven’t done anything I can be proud of.” In fact, Son largely disappeared from public view after SoftBank’s Vision Fund suffered huge losses on investments such […]
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Insight Partners It is reportedly close to making capital commitments of more than $10 billion for its 13th fund, According to the FT. The FT report notes that two of Insight’s portfolio companies were acquired last week. One of them, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, was sold to Mastercard for $100 million. $2.65 billionwas wholly
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Nick Frosst, co-founder of Canadian AI startup Cohere, valued at $5.5 billion, has been a musician his entire life. He told britcommerce that once he started singing, he never shut up. That remains true today. In addition to his full-time job at Cohere, Frosst is also the frontman of Good Kid, an indie rock band
In early 2018, VC Mike Moritz wrote in the FT that “Silicon Valley would do well to follow China’s example,” noting that the pace of work at tech companies was “furious” and that China offered “investment opportunities in the best companies.” Soon after, it all imploded. Worse still, as the FT notes in a new
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Keith Rabois, CEO of Khosla Ventures, was having dinner with a “very successful CEO” in October 2018 when the CEO asked him a question: How many people does it take to create a whole new Silicon Valley? 10,000? 100,000? Rabois didn’t know it, but he decided to accept the challenge and set out to try
