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Marcelo Claure Plots Next Move for His Billions After SoftBank Split

The former Masayoshi Son deputy has a $2 billion fortune to deploy across “a combination of everything” at his family office.

Marcelo Claure aims to be a preeminent investor in his own right after leaving SoftBank earlier this year.

Photographer: Noah Berger/Bloomberg
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Marcelo Claure is probably best known in the world of high finance as the hulking deputy to SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son. More specifically, the guy who ran the cleanup job at the investment firm’s most spectacular debacle, WeWork.

Claure, standing a towering 6-foot-6 (2 meters), is ready to be known for something else: a preeminent investor in his own right.