Matt Levine, Columnist

The Silos Keep Blocking the Vision

Also a WeWork lawsuit, a bank nationalization and some expiring options.

November 1, 2019 at 4:03 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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How does it feel to work at SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund, which has been in the news a lot recently for its massive troubled investment in WeWork? Well, here, have a word cloud:

The Journal has a picture of the word cloud. The biggest type size—I am not a word-cloud guy but I assume that means the most commonly used word?—is for “siloed.” “Lack of alignment,” “Unclear,” “Centers of Power” and “Personality Driven” are also way up there.