[controversial97]

He also paid $300 million for a minority share of a website for finding someone to walk your dog and invested $375 million in a company that failed to make robots that can make pizza.

It was not just WeWork that set his reputation as an investor.

[helsinkiandrew]

The dog walking website story is remarkable. They only wanted $75M and bought back Softbanks shares a year and a half later at a discounted valuation - effectively getting the $75M for free.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-10/the-do...