The Minutes of Bill Gurley on softbank https://minutesof.com/bill-gurley/on/softbank/ Everything Bill Gurley has said on softbank: 4 verbatim quotes between October 2019 and May 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:22:05 +0000 Gurley says SoftBank threatened to fund competitors if founders refused money, forcing preemptive rounds. https://minutesof.com/q/fc1a511d-12dd-40f9-b6aa-909b0296d8ec/ https://minutesof.com/q/fc1a511d-12dd-40f9-b6aa-909b0296d8ec/ “And there's an implicit threat that, at least at SoftBank, Masa was very direct about and not implicit. That if you don't take it, I'll give it to your competitor.” — MIT Sloan VCPE Mon, 11 May 2026 19:59:13 +0000 softbank Gurley questions why SoftBank would participate in a private credit pool given their typical investment approa https://minutesof.com/q/81c331d7-883b-4be3-b6d3-dca222ea49d1/ https://minutesof.com/q/81c331d7-883b-4be3-b6d3-dca222ea49d1/ “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.” — CNBC Television Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:30:16 +0000 softbank Gurley criticizes SoftBank's strategy of deploying hundreds of millions, which forces companies into massive l https://minutesof.com/q/09a728b9-c504-4c7f-b274-57c792a13177/ https://minutesof.com/q/09a728b9-c504-4c7f-b274-57c792a13177/ “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.” — Bloomberg Tech Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:47:29 +0000 softbank Gurley explains large capital deployments force massive losses since companies lack infrastructure to absorb f https://minutesof.com/q/7df9b2f2-0af2-4205-a2dc-91e161392ef3/ https://minutesof.com/q/7df9b2f2-0af2-4205-a2dc-91e161392ef3/ “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.” — Bloomberg Tech Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:47:29 +0000 softbank