Uber also took the money in a $9 billion investment unveiled last week. A SoftBank spokesman said his track record of success goes well beyond Alibaba and includes investments in Sprint, Yahoo! “Forty-five minutes, $45 billion,” Son said on The David Rubenstein Show in September. “He asks a lot of questions,” says Greg Wyler, the CEO of satellite provider OneWeb, which received a $1 billion SoftBank investment in December 2016. If you don’t take my money, not so good for you.”Like so many others before and since, Tan took Son’s money.

Source: Mint January 03, 2018 04:41 UTC