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  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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SoftBank

Conglomeratesconglomerate and venture investing

Masayoshi Son built SoftBank from Japanese software distribution into a telecom operator and then into the world's largest venture investor through the $100 billion Vision Fund, of which Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund supplied $45 billion. A $20 million cheque to Alibaba in 2000 came to dominate the group's net asset value, and Son has repeatedly borrowed against listed holdings to fund new bets. Readers get an extreme study in leverage, concentration and the marking of private portfolio companies, with WeWork the clearest failure at over $10 billion written off. Lionel Barber wrote the full biography, Alok Sama gives a dealmaker's inside view, an early authorised life covers the Japanese years, and the two WeWork books show what Vision Fund money did at portfolio level.

Books 5Recommenders 1People 1
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and SpecBillion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
T3 Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
Reeves Wiedeman · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

The rise of WeWork and Adam Neumann and its failed public offering.

Aiming HighAiming High
T3 Aiming High
Atsuo Inoue · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Authorised, translated from Japanese; admiring in tone.

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and thThe Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
T3 The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

WeWork's rise under Adam Neumann, the failed 2019 IPO and SoftBank's rescue.

Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan's Masay
T3 Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son
Lionel Barber · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Masayoshi Son's rise from Kyushu to SoftBank, Yahoo Japan and the Vision Fund.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the TeThe Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
T3 The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble
Alok Sama · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider memoir by SoftBank's former CFO

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