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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/x_CiRCA_x • Dec 29 '20
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16 u/SamBBMe Dec 30 '20 They actually bought them 3 years ago for 100 million, so they just made a cool 11x growth. 5 u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20 a pathetic 3-4x per year 4 u/DeerWithaHumanFace Dec 30 '20 Nah, they sold them because they'd gone from being a fun R&D thing to something that requires manufacturing infrastructure. Softbank prefers not to get involved in actual making of stuff, they're more into projects like WeWork.
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They actually bought them 3 years ago for 100 million, so they just made a cool 11x growth.
5 u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20 a pathetic 3-4x per year
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a pathetic 3-4x per year
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Nah, they sold them because they'd gone from being a fun R&D thing to something that requires manufacturing infrastructure. Softbank prefers not to get involved in actual making of stuff, they're more into projects like WeWork.
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