The most powerful person in Silicon Valley

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"$300 million in uber for dog walking app"

How can I pitch him my brilliant idea of "Tinder for Potatoes"?

Breeding the best potatoes for making the best fries, reducing global hunger and making the world a better place by revolutionizing food.

The top says 'long read'. This is where I stopped reading:

> The room where I wait is spartan. There is an empty desk in one corner, and a conference table with a fake-wood veneer.

In this day and age why is it necessary to write in this manner as if people have nothing else and are sitting on the beach and simply want to kill time?

Right, I wouldn't mind it being long if it were concise and to-the-point.

By the way this 'spartan is good' and 'frugal is good' theme has been making the rounds for a long long time (obviously pre internet). It always impresses writers. It is so wholesome to them and the audience. Opulence is derided as wasteful and de facto bad. It's like the story of the guy out in the wilderness who makes do w/o power tools. Somehow people eat that type of thing up. Salt of the earth and so on.

Excerpt: "After almost four decades of building SoftBank into a telecom conglomerate, Son, an inveterate dealmaker, launched this unprecedented venture two years ago to back startups that he believes are driving a new wave of digital upheaval."

I see Masayoshi Son as the kind of person who's not well-known to the average person, but highly recognizable to startups, tech, and venture capitalists. I agree that he should be a name to look out for in the future.

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