It's not clear if Ron Fisher's billion-dollar gamble will pay off. The SoftBank executive sits on WeWork's all-male board, having led the Vision Fund's multiple investments in the startup since 2017.

Neither Y2K bust nor WeWork's failure deter SoftBank's mercurial chief Masayoshi Son to venture again into speculative ...

The investment giant behind WeWork isn’t afraid to make big, questionable-seeming bets. At the very least, though, SoftBank ...

Eliot Brown writes about finance from The Wall Street Journal's London office. He previously covered startups and venture ...

(Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp. Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi ... s he’s often bet on the “wrong horse,” including ...

TOKYO (AP) — SoftBank Group trimmed its losses for the fiscal ... some shares lost value. Among them was WeWork, a provider of shared work spaces, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

Japan’s Softbank Group posted a record operating loss of ... a massive investment in New York based office-sharing business WeWork, which came well before the pandemic. Son has since admitted ...

What Is WeWork? WeWork provides co-working spaces and technology solutions for businesses, freelancers and anyone else who wants office space. Backed by SoftBank Group Corp. (OTC: SFTBY), a ...

Warburg Pincus advisor Alok Sama discusses investment lessons from SoftBank, FOMO-driven valuations, and the AI bubble in ...

NEW YORK & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The We Company (“WeWork” or the “Company”) and SoftBank Group Corp. (“SoftBank”) today announced that WeWork has received $1.5 billion in funding ...

The move comes as SoftBank's share price has been hammered by investor scepticism over the outlook for CEO Masayoshi Son's bets on startups like WeWork and ... Truck Alliance Group, said the ...

SoftBank has made headlines for prized investments that have filed for bankruptcy, including WeWork, Katerra ... Mulpuri wrote in a statement. "This group of real estate operators have been ...