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Softbank owns what was Vodafone Japan, along with their own customers they had all along i think?. Also own Sprint, ARM, majority of Yahoo Japan. Made billions off Clash of Clans sale. Own a ton of Alibaba, biggest shareholder of Snapdeal (one of the 2 Amazon’s of India), Paytm (PayPal of India), huge shareholder of Didi (Uber of China)). Now Investing $2.5B into Grab with Didi (Uber of South East Asia + Asian islands). Already invested $1B into Grab. Created the SoftBank Vision Fund in 2014? or 2016? "Between 2009 and 2014, SoftBank's market capitalization increased by 557%, the fourth largest relative increase in the world over that period". 3rd biggest market cap in Japan after Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial. ----- Pretty sure the Venture Fund is $25B from Softbank, $45B from PIF. Final $30B from Apple, UAE company, Foxconn, Sharp (Foxconn owned), Qualcomm, among others. #buffett #boss #boss_peeps #empires #pub