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🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN Jun 13, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:11 unnamed speaker No, the only thing is I do think Masa hasn't beat, I think Masa hasn't beat with Alibaba.

WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN Jun 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:43 unnamed speaker Tyler had a good story, uh, when, when they were building Divi, they pitched Rajiv Misra and the SoftBank Redwood City HQ, uh, and then Masa and Tokyo soon after, it was absolute cinema. 2 times in the scene

Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN Mar 27, 2026 · 2 mentions

Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 21, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:19 unnamed speaker Uh, Moss is a high vol guy. 6 times in the scene

Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI Mar 20, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 2:33 unnamed speaker Ah, Moss is a high vol guy. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 4:02 unnamed speaker So, like Masa, Jeff Bezos has been through the ups and downs of the dot com boom and bust.

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup Mar 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:35 Travis Kalanick And here's the thing, uh, you know, back in the day, 2010 reference, like there was a problem with getting masa money. 2 times in the scene

Disney Partners with OpenAI, Breaking Down SpaceX’s IPO Plans, Oracle Slips | Diet TBPN Dec 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:24 Jordi Hays Historically, like, the greatest venture investment ever, in my view, was, ah, Masa's twenty million investment in Alibaba.

AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN Nov 12, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 9:15 unnamed speaker The more important thing here is that this is not the first time, ah, Masa has exited NVIDIA. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:59 unnamed speaker Moss's son is a male. 3 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI Sep 27, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:41 John Coogan Um, anyway, I was reminded about that famous image we pulled up of Masayoshi Son back in February, was meeting with Sam Altman in Japan, and he had a crystal ball. 4 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew Aug 30, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 29:39 Jordi Hays SoftBank led by Masa suddenly agreed to put two billion into the company, part of its campaign to bet on us firms and appeal to Trump.
  • ▶ 32:17 Jordi Hays Well, all I can see is I can see why Masa needed to be, needed to be in that, needed to be in that website, John. 2 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses Jul 12, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 45:41 unnamed speaker Masa top blasting, or potentially top blasting. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:35 unnamed speaker I, I'm trying to remember the, uh, I mean, we did that whole deep dive on Masa and 6 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale Jun 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:30 unnamed speaker You know, if you and Masa could pull together the capital, we can make it happen.

Why the MARKET Is More FRAGILE Than EVER | Bryce Roberts on TBPN April 7th Apr 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:28 Bryce Roberts Like, if you look at that forty billion dollar open AI deal that, that Masa just did, right? 2 times in the scene

David Senra (Founders Podcast) on Studying Billionaires and Avoiding Their Mistakes Apr 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:38 Jordi Hays Um, unless masa is listening, um, just, but this goes back to have the opportunity to lose a hundred billion.

Andrew Reed on Sequoia and How to Be a World-Class VC Mar 28, 2025 · 1 mention

David Senra on Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Being a Great Founder. Mar 24, 2025 · 10 mentions

"I Partner with People" - Chad Byers talks about Venture, Fitness, and Being a Chad. Mar 19, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:58 Jordi Hays No, but, but you rode the, you rode the, you know, it's like the, you know, the famous masa slide where like, it's like the trough of disillusionment, trough of disillusionment.

Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators. Mar 12, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 8:19 Sam Lessin I, Masa's nuts, right? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:25 unnamed speaker Google has not managed to release an, uh, an AI product that hasn't been riddled with issues, and it feels like, uh, it, it does, you know, we, we, you know, you obviously, uh, can poke fun at Masa's picking ability and call him somebody…
  • ▶ 24:04 Sam Lessin So I think, you know, it turns out in creator, like most things, the transparent deals, the super buzzy ones, Masa style, they always get super overpriced, right?

How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis) Feb 19, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:09 unnamed speaker Masa, I'm sure was, was, you know, pulling, making, uh, making some magic happen too.
  • ▶ 1:04:37 John Coogan In December, uh, Masayoshi Sohn played golf with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago and announced his intention to invest a hundred billion dollars in US infrastructure projects alongside Trump and Lutnik.

The BILLIONAIRE Saving THE WEST Feb 19, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 7:26 unnamed speaker It's amazing they're positioning this as Trump's Stargate plan because it was a press conference for Massa and Sam Altman that happened to take place with Trump present. 3 times in the scene

He's POURING Money Into Technology Investments Feb 11, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:10 unnamed speaker If somebody is raising eight billion dollars, unless they're Masa son, they have probably planned things out pretty precisely.

The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!) Feb 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 56:30 unnamed speaker It is funny how these, these, if there was a sovereign wealth fund, I imagine that it would ultimately be Trump as playing masa where people come and pitch him crazier and crazier, bigger and bigger ideas.

From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise) Feb 1, 2025 · 118 mentions

  • ▶ 0:00 unnamed speaker Well, let's start with some context of why he's in the news and then just kick it off with the proper intro. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:43 unnamed speaker Um, Masa, uh, in, you know, in a big way. 13 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:31 unnamed speaker And so this is, this is the environment that Moss is growing up in as like sub 10 years old, which is just crazy, crazy environment. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 12:16 unnamed speaker And so, uh, Fujita acts as like a mentor to Masa and tells him, go study English, learn about the computer industry, and you gotta go to America. 18 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:52 unnamed speaker And that's why when, you know, because today the younger generation of entrepreneurs really know Masa for going 19 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:35 unnamed speaker Masa gave the, after he made this offer, he gave the Yahoo founders an ultimatum. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:05 unnamed speaker And so the dot-com crash was rough for him. 16 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:30 unnamed speaker One of the, one of the greatest, probably the greatest fundraiser of all time, Sam Altman's very good at fundraising, yet he still has to go to Masta to really get the job done. 22 times in the scene
  • ▶ 52:51 unnamed speaker We're not, uh, you know, this shows obviously for entertainment purposes only, but the thing that I think everybody should take away from Masa is that 2 times in the scene

DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy Jan 28, 2025 · 1 mention

DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly Jan 25, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 21:57 John Coogan He's dealing with Masa.
  • ▶ 26:39 Jordi Hays We don't have a lot of details, but, and we should try to go through the girly piece, because he, he, like, gave a thread of, here's all the questions I have about, about OpenAI's, uh, Project Stargate, but if, if this is 1.4 trillion…
  • ▶ 1:26:46 Jordi Hays So this is why, this is why our joke, uh, being like, it's all for you, brother, the post we made about Jensen and Masa. 2 times in the scene

Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos Jan 23, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:20 Jordi Hays And, and, and Masa had very much framed it as before he, you know, apparently the conversation went, if you get, if you win, I'll bring you a hundred billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:18 Jordi Hays I was, you know, obviously shitposting being like, you know, showing Masa and, uh, and, uh, Jensen being like, five hundred billion. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 21:02 John Coogan yeah, uh, Ben Thompson frames this as a bit of a prospectus as Masayoshi Son sets out to raise the funds. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 32:12 Jordi Hays And Sam and Masa out behind the scenes, taking these meetings, trying to get people to pick a side.
  • ▶ 49:16 John Coogan So if you make, if he makes the deck for Star, Stargate, and, you know, sends it to Masa, and he starts shooting it around. 2 times in the scene

The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6) Nov 3, 2024 · 11 mentions

Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1) Oct 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:15 unnamed speaker You know, my Yoshi-san's money to make them beautiful and cheap and, like, available to everybody.
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