Bill Gurley on

softbank

3 quotes · Oct 2019 – Jan 2025

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  1. Gurley questions why SoftBank would participate in a private credit pool given their typical investment approach.

    “And this this I have three observations if all those things are true. One, I'm curious why SoftBank would wanna be part of a private credit pool. It's not what they've typically done.”

    1:38 · CNBC Television · 24 Jan 2025 · permalink
  2. Gurley criticizes SoftBank's strategy of deploying hundreds of millions, which forces companies into massive losses.

    “I've I've been quoted publicly, like, they've, you know, played a strategy where you hand hundreds of millions of dollars to a company and say, here, go win in the market with this.”

    6:32 · Bloomberg Tech · 2 Oct 2019 · permalink
  3. Gurley explains large capital deployments force massive losses since companies lack infrastructure to absorb funds.

    “the only way to deploy that amount of capital is to take on massive losses. There's there's no way to you know, these companies don't have massive infrastructure.”

    6:43 · Bloomberg Tech · 2 Oct 2019 · permalink

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