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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.

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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.

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