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More Details on OpenAI-Hugging Face, SpaceX SPV Investors Get Rugged, Demis and DeepMind | Diet TBPN Aug 6, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:48 John Coogan Since Washington stepped in, as you know, Jordy, um, Intel has pulled five billion of investment from NVIDIA, two billion from Japan's SoftBank, and its shares have more than quadrupled, trouncing those of rivals.

Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness Jul 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:47 Martin Shkreli So one wonders what, what the future will bring there, but yeah, about as crazy as things have gotten on wall street in, in many years, uh, probably at least since FTX and certainly crazier than the, the, the sort of tiger soft bank

RSI Is Closer Than People Think, Per Tae Kim Jul 29, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:11 Tae Kim It's a backstop, SoftBank, up to two hundred fifty billion, you know.

Midjourney Goes Medical, Noam Shazeer & Dean Ball Join OpenAI | Diet TBPN Jun 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:50 unnamed speaker Also on the board of SoftBank.

WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN Jun 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 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.

Tech Earnings Quadkill, Red Button vs Blue Button | Diet TBPN Apr 30, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:44 unnamed speaker Back and forth, uh, on the open AI news, shares of Oracle, CoreWeave, and SoftBank, uh, slumped, but CoreWeave is up majorly today, 8.4%.

Intel Rips, Thrive Launches Eternal, GPT 5.5 | Diet TBPN Apr 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:08 Dylan Patel In fact, they've raised a ton of money to get incremental compute in addition to the irresponsible levels of compute that they were buying from Oracle and Core, even SoftBank, and all these people, and Microsoft, uh, you know, such as…

Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN Mar 27, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:19 Jordi Hays Because they own 90%, roughly 90% of the company. 4 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 1:51 unnamed speaker If he had done ninety-nine billion or a hundred and one billion, I don't think people would make it, be making as many SoftBank comparisons, but of course, as soon as you hear a hundred billion dollars, uh, for a mega fund, you instantly… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:04 unnamed speaker It's a vision fund for America. 2 times in the scene

Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI Mar 20, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 2:05 unnamed speaker If he had done ninety nine billion or a hundred and one billion, I don't think people would make it be making as many soft bank comparisons. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:18 unnamed speaker It's a vision fund for America.

Samsung’s $70B Chip Bet, Apple Doing Nothing But Winning AI, Bezos’ New Fund | Diet TBPN Mar 19, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:54 Jordi Hays It would dwarf the size of some of the world's largest bio funds and rival SoftBank's a hundred billion dollar fund.

Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN Mar 3, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:56 Jordi Hays OpenAI raised a hundred and ten billion dollar round of funding from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank.

Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN Feb 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:19 Jordi Hays He was comparing that to, uh, Saudi Aramco, Alibaba, and SoftBank, which were, uh,

Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN Feb 10, 2026 · 1 mention

AGI in 2035, SoftBank Sells Nvidia, Buffett Goes Quiet | Diet TBPN Nov 12, 2025 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 8:16 unnamed speaker SoftBank's big profits jump this quarter came from OpenAI's increased valuation that SoftBank lifted higher by buying shares from employees, uh, and selling them at a higher price. 12 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:10 unnamed speaker SoftBank initially bought its Nvidia stake through the Vision Fund in 2017, then exited completely in January 19.

Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:05 unnamed speaker Maybe, maybe they'll have to call SoftBank and say, hey, we need a bridge.

How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York Oct 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:51 unnamed speaker Uh, but anyways, Microsoft at 30%, OpenAI employees around 30%, OpenAI non-profit at 20 to 30%, SoftBank about 10%, and the remaining is, is, uh, Thrive, Khosla, MGX, and a number of, of, uh, Bedrocks in there. 2 times in the scene

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

  • ▶ 14:08 John Coogan And at the time it was, it was, it was met with, uh, the idea of like, oh, like chat, like open AI has to tap masa and soft bank.
  • ▶ 51:44 John Coogan They also announced five new data sites, data center sites across the U.S. built with Oracle and Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank. 3 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew Aug 30, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 9:07 Jordi Hays Japan's SoftBank Group agreed to invest two billion, seeking to curry favor with Trump.
  • ▶ 26:33 John Coogan Uh, so, uh, I mean, the question, the resignation mid August, uh, then Trump met tan soft bank invested two billion and the share price rose from under 20 dollars to over 25 dollars a share. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:15 John Coogan Um, did I tell you that my first internship ever was at a soft bank backed company? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 56:18 Dr. Drew Pinsky And we sat at SoftBank, SoftBank rather, and made, he just said, follow me. 3 times in the scene

Dr. Drew on Tech, COVID, and Living a Happy Life Aug 27, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 1:39 Dr. Drew Pinsky And then he put together a little board, and we went, he grabbed me by the arm and took me up to Sand Hill Road, and we sat at SoftBank, SoftBank rather, and made, he just said, follow me. 3 times in the scene

Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses Jul 12, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 46:39 unnamed speaker You know, he made a ton of money on AMD, but that, when he made that investment, it was like a way less frothy time, or, you know, it wasn't AMD, it was, uh, it was, uh, what, what, what was the SoftBank chip deal? 2 times in the scene

Sam Lessin on Meta, Artificial Intelligence, and Investing in Creators. Mar 12, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 7:47 unnamed speaker Do you think that, uh, SoftBank can realistically spend three billion dollars on agents with OpenAI this year? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:49 unnamed speaker Right, but, but, but obviously with vision, vision fund, like a massive infrastructure, just put a million dollars into every new company, just write tons of seed checks, like, like, is it, is it just an infrastructure problem?

Augustus Doricko talks Cloud Seeding, Christianity, The Gundo Boys and the future of Rainmaker. Mar 8, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:13 Augustus Doricko Um, how you get someone to innovate and like winding motors, um, not totally sure, but like boards, I think actually we are going to see, if not just because of soft banks, a hundred billion dollars that they maybe do or don't have, uh, we…

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

From NOTHING to BILLIONS (Masa's Epic Rise) Feb 1, 2025 · 27 mentions

  • ▶ 17:37 unnamed speaker And so he chooses the name SoftBank. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:09 unnamed speaker Like he, he had taken SoftBank public at a three billion dollar market cap.
  • ▶ 34:47 unnamed speaker SoftBank's market cap plunged at 99%. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:11 unnamed speaker And so the vision fund is born on 20 in 2017. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:21 unnamed speaker SoftBank puts in twenty eight billion. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:37 unnamed speaker Well, that wraps up our deep dive on Masayoshi Son and SoftBank.

DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly Jan 25, 2025 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 1:17:39 John Coogan Uh, the headline, five hundred billion is such an earth shattering number that it also caused deserved skepticism from folks like Elon Musk, stating that SoftBank has well under ten billion of funding secured. 11 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:51:30 Jordi Hays SoftBank is a public company.

Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos Jan 23, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 4:01 John Coogan And so, so it's, uh, OpenAI SoftBank Group, which we know well, 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:12 Jordi Hays Okay, so Gavin Baker, uh, crossover fund manager, and a great poster, says, uh, Stargate is a great name, but the five hundred billion is a ridiculous number, and no one should take it seriously unless SoftBank is going to sell all of… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:52 John Coogan He says, Oracle and SoftBank are there to serve OpenAI, which isn't a business that Microsoft is particularly interested in.
  • ▶ 49:46 John Coogan Imagine being a designer at Southank and just being like, because it, it has a very like PowerPoint aesthetic.

How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20) Dec 11, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:17 John Coogan Why ensure cross, why endure cross-border headaches or compete with spendthrift foreigners like SoftBank of Japan, uh, as they bid up valuations of today's sexy AI startups.

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

  • ▶ 1:29:35 John Coogan Masayushi Sohn, the head of SoftBank, is here quoted saying that, nine trillion dollars of capex for artificial super intelligence is very reasonable. 3 times in the scene

The "Switzerland of AI" is Crazy (ep3) Oct 14, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:25 Jordi Hays There was also this calendar app that SoftBank backed, if you remember, that, like, was claiming to have, like, they were claiming, I think it was called IRL.
  • ▶ 54:26 John Coogan I don't know, but I mean, for, for every one of these articles, there's 10 that are like, oh, SoftBank's back in the game, baby.
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