Adam Neumann, cofounder of WeWork, speaks during a signing ceremony at WeWork Weihai Road flagship ... [+] on April 12, 2018 in Shanghai, China. Few tech-era founders traveled from hero to zero faster or more spectacularly than Neumann of WeWork infamy. Among them: SoftBank titan Masayoshi Son, whose $100 billion Vision Fund remade the global venture capital game. Neumann reportedly called Son a “Jedi” who “has lots of superpowers.” Turns out, it was Neumann who was playing mind tricks. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty ImagesAs a Japan-based writer, I’ve been hard on Son’s Vision Fund, which can seem like a contradiction in terms.

Source: Forbes May 07, 2020 11:37 UTC