Tim Culpan, Columnist

Son's $100 Billion Mammoth Can Still Move Fast

The SoftBank Vision Fund just had its busiest and most profitable quarter, and it still has the Uber IPO to come.

May 9, 2019 at 7:12 AM UTC

Tim Culpan is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology in Asia. Previously, he was a technology reporter for Bloomberg News.

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SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund has already deployed around 60 percent of its planned $100 billion, according to data released Thursday.

Among the disclosures is that the fund exited its investment in Nvidia Corp. in January, for a total gain of 306.8 billion yen ($2.8 billion).