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Hah, this is pretty hilarious. The other important tidbit from the article that I think is critically important is that a huge part (most?) of Son's fortune, after the .com collapse, was a single investment in Alibaba. So, basically, Son got lucky. Of course, "luck" of this sort isn't possible unless you are willing to take big risks, which Son did, but so often, especially in the VC world, you see folks whose really sole main skill is a penchant for outsized risk-taking, and they got lucky, and then they are hailed as a "genius", where the only difference between them and thousands of others who failed is one lucky event, and of course, stastically, someone will get lucky. When I first heard about Neumann's ridiculous platinum parachute, it made me angry about the state of capitalism, but honestly, if you are going to be a grifter, can't think of a better group to take it from than Son and the Arabian oil shieks. |