The way SoftBank invests in startups just doesn’t work, says Khosla Ventures’ Keith Rabois - Vox
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Rabois talked with Recode’s Kara Swisher about startups, innovation, Facebook, President Trump, and more on a recent Recode Decode.
On a recent episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois joined Kara in studio to talk about a range of topics, including the startup landscape, being a conservative contrarian in tech (who has publicly rejected President Trump), and why he thinks SoftBank’s Vision Fund is prolonging the deaths of doomed companies. (The interview was recorded on December 26 and published January 5. This week, reports emerged that SoftBank would invest $2 billion in WeWork, rather than an originally planned $16 billion that could have given it a controlling stake in…
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