2010 SoftBank 30 year vision document: its a wilde ride [pdf]

20 year old me would've rolled eyes so hard I'd be looking straight into my throat, but 40 year old me appreciates a deck like this because I've learned over time that vision like this does matter.

Interesting tidbit I found about Soft Bank. They pay their employees to have kids, upwards of $40k if you have your fifth.

From the slides,

>5 turning points of SoftBank

>1981 Big bet after one month of business foundation

>1983 Fight against illness

>1994 IPO, ventured into US

>2001 Start broadband business

>2006 Acquired Vodafone KK

Lol, what about the one-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity in Alibaba, which they took probably by chance, and pretty much MADE the modern SoftBank.

Alibaba hadn't gone public yet when these slides were made, though, so had Softbank actually gotten any return on that investment yet?

Well, to be honest they acknowledged in the sides that any company's survival chances for 30 years are 0.02%.

They don't need to worry about all investments turning into multibragger.

Telepathy seems like an outlier here

It's the perfect ugly design to communicate a pretentious and empty vision.