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🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 7:17 Jordi Hays Masayoshi Son. 2 times in the scene
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 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
FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 6:18 Jordi Hays Ask Masa.
David Senra on Nvidia, Jensen Huang, and Being a Great Founder.
- ▶ 26:49 Jordi Hays That person is Masa, Masayoshi Son. 10 times in the scene
"I Partner with People" - Chad Byers talks about Venture, Fitness, and Being a Chad.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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!)
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 1:26:58 Jordi Hays Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Massa, and Sam are in a war room right now.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 1:28:01 John Coogan Masa gets in on it.
- ▶ 1:29:31 John Coogan Um, but, ah, we should, we should stay on Masa. 10 times in the scene
Venture Capital Just Changed Forever (ep1)
- ▶ 29:15 unnamed speaker You know, my Yoshi-san's money to make them beautiful and cheap and, like, available to everybody.