This week, SoftBank's planned $40 billion sale of Arm, a chip designer, to Nvidia, a Silicon Valley chipmaker, fell apart because of regulatory setbacks
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank, with Marcelo Claure in Idaho in 2018.
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For the past decade, SoftBank and its founder, Masayoshi Son, grabbed headlines mainly for the Japanese conglomerateâs eye-popping investments, becoming a fixture in the American technology scene by spending freely on startups and fundamentally reshaping how such companies had been funded.
There was the worldâs largest tech investment fund. The billions of dollars pumped into coworking giant WeWork. And Sonâs splashy purchase of one of Silicon Valleyâs priciest homes.
Now, the bad news is piling up.
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