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

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Mobile Phones - I Want to Get Into Mobile, I Need a Great Device

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was working on a mobile phone when he met with massa. Massa wanted to be the first carrier in Japan, but didn't have the money to do it. He raised $20 billion from capital markets and bought one of the largest japanese carriers. In two thousand eight, votophone became the exclusive carrier of the iphone in JAPAN.

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