Financial Forensics: The Due Diligence Files
SoftBank Vision Fund 2017 : $100 Billion That Became Its Own Market. How Capital Concentration Broke Price Discovery — EP77 T1
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🔴 FFL Case Library is Live 80 forensic cases · 3 offline tools · zero cloudRun your deals against the pattern database before you sign.Launch price $79 → $99 after EP100 release. All Info is in the Link [https://sergiostieben.gumroad.com/l/wqyicc [https://sergiostieben.gumroad.com/l/wqyicc]] .In 2017 SoftBank raised the largest private investment fund in history — $98.6 billion for the Vision Fund. Masayoshi Son’s thesis was simple: AI would transform every industry and the fund would own the winners. Instead, the sheer size of the fund turned it into the market itself. It led nearly every round it participated in, set the prices, marked its own portfolio to those prices, and reported spectacular paper gains — until the music stopped. This is the financial autopsy of the SoftBank Vision Fund — and the capital concentration mechanism that converted one of the largest capital pools ever assembled into a self-referential valuation machine. We dissect how $100 billion deployed at speed in ridesharing, real estate, hospitality and logistics created a feedback loop where the fund’s own checks became the primary price signal, how WeWork reached a $47 billion valuation with no independent buyer, and the $50+ billion in write-downs that followed when public markets finally priced the assets. We cover the preferred/ordinary equity asymmetry, the competitive overlap across Uber-Didi-Grab-Ola, the governance implications for LPs, and the brutal correction between 2019 and 2023. Quick note before we start — the FFL Case Library is live. Eighty forensic cases, three tools, runs offline. This is Episode 80. Today we close the first library. Link in the show notes. If you are an LP allocating to growth equity, a GP raising a large fund, or an analyst evaluating private technology valuations, this episode explains how size itself can become the dominant risk factor. Financial Forensics Labs — Every collapse has a pattern. We dissect it. Layer by layer. KEYWORDS SoftBank Vision Fund collapse, Masayoshi Son $100 billion fund, WeWork SoftBank valuation, capital concentration risk, self-referential valuation private equity, Vision Fund write-downs, SoftBank growth equity failure, LP due diligence large funds, private market price discovery failure, Uber Didi Grab Ola SoftBank, preferred equity asymmetry, Vision Fund governance failure
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