SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals

You’d would think if Misra actually did these things, and Benedetti was successful at neutralizing his enemies at the company, that Misra would at least be grateful and happily pay him a few million dollars considering the hundreds of millions he stood to make personally from running the Vision Fund. Also considering how damaging it could be to him to have anyone find out the repulsive dirty tricks he resorted to. But in the end it would seem that he was cheap and also screwed over Benedetti. I hope this takes him down if the allegations are true. I certainly hope I never have to work closely with someone like that— life is too short to have people try to anonymously destroy your reputation for their own financial gain.

Rats like this is toxic to the tech ecosystem and should be removed and banished, period.

> Associates of the Italian businessman said he has told them he recorded conversations in which Mr. Misra detailed his plans to weaken his SoftBank rivals.

oof I wonder how much disruption this article is causing all them now!

Is this guy also responsible for Softbank's somewhat batshit investment strategy? Is he being outed here because someone wants to turn the company around?

Given how poorly executed softbanks strategy has been I'm not surprised.

The strategy itself was maybe something that could work or was at least an interesting idea - but the way they've actually deployed funding has been wild.

I wonder how much more self dealing will show up in all of this.

Sounds like standard operating procedure for most companies I’ve worked for. Once you are aware of how many issues just go unsolved or ignored due to various power struggles, it’s pretty demoralizing.

Unfortunately sociopaths are overrepresented in corporate boardrooms.

non-paywall link anyone?

Ugh. These people are sociopaths. Honestly I wish we would have more public distain and opprobrium for this type of sociopathic behavior, instead of just treating it with a "well, most CEOs are at that very least extremely aggressive" shrug.

If we treated this kind of behavior like we treat child abuse there would be zero tolerance for it at the top levels of business.

Wow, just wow and published in the WSJ, and about one of the top executives in one of the largest investment firms. I bet nothing will happened. You know... white color crime.