SoftBank Group
also referred to as: softbank
8 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2017 by Rob Frohwein · said 37 times in 15 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nathan Latka (20), Rob Frohwein (4), Michael Karnjanaprakorn (4), David Skok (2), Zoran Stamer (1), Oren Zaslansky (1), Luke Beatty (1), Jonah Goodhart (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
- FlockFreight Triples Revenue to $300m Last 10 Months, Raises $215m at $1.3b Post
- FreightWaves Hits $30m Revenue, Spends No Money on CAC, Media Business Winning
- $500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 17 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- 1213 Kabbage CEO: We've lent $5b to 150,000 SMB's, Will Pass $300m in 2018 Revenue
- 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
- 955 How Skillshare Doubles YoY to $30m+ With Huge Content Library
- 1219 Will Prosperworks and it's 10,000 Paying Customers Win CRM Wars?
- 1079 How He's Pivoted 3 Times Since 1996, Moving to Cloud Based SaaS w/ $10m in ARR
- 993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about SoftBank Group, oldest first
Nov 30, 2017 positive
Sep 4, 2018 neutral
Skok: SoftBank's kingmaker strategy has not disrupted B2B SaaS
“Fortunately, in the B to B space, which is where I focus, we don't see that half as much, and it's much more important than to have a rational strategy for customer acquisition. So we haven't yet seen SoftBank enter into the B to B space and do a kingmaker str…”
Nov 19, 2018 neutral
Jan 1, 2021
Jan 1, 2021 positive
SoftBank invested primarily for Flock Freight's predictive algorithm tech
“I mean, that's honestly, I think the number one reason why SoftBank made the investment as they did is they looked at the hard science, the hard the algorithms, the mathematicians, the data scientists that we employ to not just predict a future of is there a t…”
Jan 1, 2021
Nov 8, 2021 bullish
SoftBank offered up to $300M before Flock Freight reduced the check size
“SoftBank was about half of the check in this round. You know, we had another hundred million dollars come in on top of what SoftBank wrote. SoftBank wanted to write a much larger check, initially up to three hundred million. And from around construction standp…”