Masayoshi Son, every mention
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every year anyone Ted Seides 9Jeff Hausenbold 8Sebastian Mallaby 1Ben Gilbert 1Ali Hamed 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Masayoshi Son comes up
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 36:31 Sebastian Mallaby Masayoshi-san pioneered this and then took it to the highest, most extreme level with his enormous vision fund.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 44:45 Ben Gilbert And so it was sort of this natural place where you have someone with just unbelievable gravitas like Masa saying, we're going to raise a hundred billion dollar fund because there's an amazing fit
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 20:49 Jeff Hausenbold And I went to meet Masayoshi-san, because I heard he was raising this hundred billion dollar vision fund, and I was about to start a new job, and we needed to raise capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:17 Ted Seides You're joining Masa-san, a hundred billion dollar fund. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Jeff Hausenbold Masa had an exclusive to sell the iPhone in Japan, was very close to Steve Jobs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:01 Jeff Hausenbold So I oversee consumer and prop tech and we're a firm and a global firm and MAS is the head of that, but we all kind of run our own sectors on a daily basis.
- ▶ 48:47 Jeff Hausenbold And in fact, that led Masa to decide that fund two is a sole LP fund.
- ▶ 56:29 Ted Seides So Jeff, you mentioned at the onset of your entry into the SoftBank Vision Fund that Masa had said, well, you could just do this for a couple of years, and we're going to have all these companies, and you go run a company, you can do…
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 45:29 Ted Seides The other hand, you've got a huge hammer in the hands of Mastasana and he's going to find nails. 2 times in the scene