Absolutely.
Tiger did this by blitzscaling their way through diligence via Bain consultants [1] which was great for founders because they got money faster with fewer strings. Who would say no? So Tiger can say, look we are funding more founders faster than anyone else, great right?
It's even more fractal if Softbank was actually the "Nasdaq Whale" that bought call options on tech positions in such volume that it may have required option sellers to hedge by buying stock, perpetuating a cycle of rising tech stock prices. [2]
Echos of the Hunt Brothers and their attempt to corner the silver market [3].