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Ryan Petersen: Building Flexport
- ▶ 25:35 Shane Parrish Walk me through the major beats, uh, and milestones up until the SoftBank investment, which was 2019.
- ▶ 31:53 Ryan Petersen Um, but we went from, I forget the metrics at the moment of the first soft bank investment, but, um,
- ▶ 34:28 Shane Parrish So that leads to the soft bank investment, which was, I think they gave you a billion in cash. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 Ryan Petersen We got the funding from SoftBank, and then we did, I hired a CTO that year.
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
- ▶ 44:00 Seth Godin It was 1997, and they were launching ZDNet, which was SoftBank's TV network about technology.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 35:45 Bill Ackman And I think the, the soft banks of the world that have allowed them to stay private, I don't think have done them a service.
- ▶ 37:50 Bill Ackman And so with SoftBank injecting, you know, a hundred billion dollars in marking up the value of, of companies and giving them capital that they could use to postpone going public, I think, I think it's fundamentally been a disservice to the…
#50 Josh Wolfe: Inventing the Future
- ▶ 1:23:40 Josh Wolfe At the other end, you have the megas, which SoftBank is the great example of this, but there are other firms that are raising multiple billions of dollars,