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Will SoftBank’s Vision Fund turn us blind?

SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund bears grave portents for startups and investing in India, but there could be a much bigger problem lurking

24/11/17

Sumanth Raghavendra

At $93 billion, the Vision Fund is by far the largest VC fund ever in history

SoftBank’s recipe of $10 billion in 10 Indian startups is a recipe for, to put it mildly, a burning kitchen

A charitable way to describe this strategy would be to liken SoftBank’s portfolio to a “cyber-keiretsu”. Stay with us

The Vision Fund’s goal is to have a stake in all the companies which would create and dominate the Singularity

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Leviathan. If you could think of only one word to describe SoftBank’s Vision Fund, it would be this. At $93 billion, the Vision Fund is by far the largest VC fund ever in history. And like the legendary sea monster of yore, with its immense size and power, it is threatening to upend every aspect…

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