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Season 2, Episode 4: SoftBank, Fortress and the Vision Fund

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Vision Funds

Sovereign wealth funds want to invest in the future of technology without something like sobank. They could have done that individually through very large corporate venture, but companies aren't good at doing that. Instead they are putting capital into growth stage start ups and taking public companies private. This creates conflict of interests all over the place as corporations worry about cannibalization.

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