[perl4ever]

What I read is that $5B is on top of their past investments of roughly $11B.

[dfcowell]

The $5b is coming from SoftBank Group. The earlier $11b came from the Vision Fund, which is a subsidiary with an entirely different operating environment.

[semi-extrinsic]

Sure, but it still means somehow Masayoshi Son (and the investors whose money he manages) has paid $16bn for a thing now worth $8bn.

[dodobirdlord]

Assuming WeWork ends up being worth $5B+, it's kinda impressive that Masayoshi Son comes out of this with Softbank owning much of WeWork and the Vision Fund investors being the ones getting burned.

[Danieru]

Except the vision fund is structured as debt for the outside money. Softbank takes the profit and loss minus interest payments on the debt. Thus the vision fund is more like a leveraged softbank.