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Marcelo Claure

14 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2021 by Marcelo Claure · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Aug 30, 2021 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Claure: Sprint Cut $11B in Costs Under His Leadership
“We basically reduced eleven billion dollars of cost, and we figured that we could do a lot more with a lot less people, a lot less just bureaucracy.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 6:44 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Claure: SoftBank constructs Chinese walls when portfolio companies become direct competitors
“What we do at that point in time is we basically split the responsibilities within investment partners. We build these Chinese walls to make sure nobody except me can see what they're doing, and we're very careful in information sharing.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 19:41 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Claure regrets SoftBank missing major MercadoLibre investment in 2018
“So MercadoLibre, in July, 2018, the value was significantly less, and I didn't push mass enough for us to make an enormous play with MercadoLibre, because I didn't truly understand investing back then.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 33:26 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Claure offered Sandeep Mathrani the WeWork CEO job 30 minutes into a board interview
“And in one of my board interviews, I met Sandeep. I was interviewing for a board member. And I tell you, 30 minutes into the interview, I said, let me stop. I said, you should not be a board member. You should be the CEO of WeWork.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 30:33 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Claure: SoftBank operates 26 global teams meeting hundreds of founders weekly
“Today we have 26 investment teams all over the world that are meeting hundreds of entrepreneurs every single week”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 10:51 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Claure: SoftBank wrote $50M and $8B checks on the same day
“There was a meeting in which we wrote a fifty million dollar check, and there was a meeting that we wrote an eight billion dollar check. And that could happen the same day.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 10:29 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Disclosure
Claure: SoftBank Passed on Nubank Early On Due to High Price
“I passed on Nubank because of the price at the beginning when we started the fund, and it was the wrong decision because the opportunity was huge.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 23:11 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Claure: Sprint Was Losing $5B Annually When He Took Over as CEO
“Sprint was losing five billion dollars a year.”
Marcelo Claure Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 5:11 20VC: Marcelo Claure, CEO of Softbank Group International on Lessons From Investing $1BN Per Week with Masa Son, How Softbank Could Have Up To 8 Companies Go Public in LATAM Alone Next Year & How Softbank Analyse Both Deal Pricing and Competition Today
Jul 31, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Claure: Pitching Steve Jobs Created the Mobile Phone Trade-In Model
“So back then, I used to own Brightstar. And I had an idea of how could Apple actually double their sales. And after many emails to Steve Jobs, which he wrote me back, no interest. One day he got tired of everybody pinging him that he had to meet me. So he agre…”
Marcelo Claure Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 59:20 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Claure: I Invested $150M Into FTX at SoftBank Due to FOMO
“So I invested hundred and fifty million dollars on FTX, which I mean, apologies to SoftBank, because I should have never made that investment, but it's probably one decision that has changed my life forever. I'm never going to invest in something that I don't …”
Marcelo Claure Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 1:04:12 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2023
Disclosure
Claure: I Am a Good Operator, Not a Good Investor
“I don't think I'm a good investor. I think I can spot good businesses, I can spot good entrepreneurs, but there is a master to invest in, and what I can do is I can bring opportunities, and I can then pass them up to Shu, and Shu often analyzes them a lot bett…”
Marcelo Claure Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 3:50 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2023
Disclosure
Claure: Bicycle Capital Partners Committing $200M of Their Own Money
“When you look at Bicycle Fund One, We're bringing our own capital. We're probably one of the few funds who, we're bringing more than two hundred million dollars of our own money, right?”
Marcelo Claure Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 9:15 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nyatta and Claure Met the Day Their Daughters Were Born
“Our two daughters were born on the exact same day, and that's when we met.”
Shu Nyatta Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 1:09 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 31, 2023 positive
Insight
Nyatta: Work and Play Are Integrated Components of a Single Life
“Work and play are not different things. They are the same thing, which is life. And that's a beautiful concept, because there's not this partition of what you do and who you are.”
Shu Nyatta Jul 31, 2023 ▶ 48:28 Marcelo Claure & Shu Nyatta: LATAM's New $500M Growth Fund; Investing Billions at SoftBank | E1042 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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