Softbank's Blurry Vision, or, How To (Mostly) Burn $100bn: Part I, The Dream of Masoyoshi Son

In this series, we'll be telling the story of the Softbank Vision
Fund, the $100bn technology venture capital fund that was
supposed to revolutionise the world and bring forward a glorious
techno-future.

The Vision Fund that now looks like it's inflated a massive,
unsustainable bubble in tech companies (and companies that
pretend to be tech companies).

First - the story of Softbank, pre-Vision Fund, and its visionary
founder, Masoyoshi Son, who made both the best and worst
investments in living memory.