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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Kosaku Narioka is a reporter at the Asia real-time hub in Singapore. Kosaku covers corporate news from Japan, India and China ...

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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump joined SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son to announce ... s massive stake in the office-sharing company WeWork which sought bankruptcy protection last year.

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

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 ...

The occasion for Son’s star turn in the White House Roosevelt Room on Jan. 21 was an announcement that SoftBank Group, Son’s Tokyo ... office-sharing startup WeWork, for which the fund was ...