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

I don't know. I don't know if it's two and twenty or lower. Um But even if it's lower, it's just such a huge amount of money that like it's a I have a lot of thoughts here. Mm-hmm. Welcome to season two, episode four of Acquired. the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs.

I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. Today we are covering an acquisition that has forever changed the world of venture capital, private equity, and emerging technology companies forever. I think I said forever twice there.

Softbank buying fortress. It's so forever. It's doubly forever. It's double forever. And of course the subsequent creation of the Softbank Vision Fund. And we will tie up the connection between those two things. But before we dig in Too far.

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