Episode · This Week in Startups · 2020-03-10
Jason Calacanis & Jeff Housenbold: books mentioned on This Week in Startups
E1035: SoftBank Managing Partner Jeff Housenbold on deploying the $100B Vision Fund, getting recruited by Masayoshi Son, counseling founders to manage massive capital, creating moats, reasons for shift toward profits, lessons from WeWork & more
0:40 Jason intros Jeff Housenbold 2:16 What did Jeff do before joining the Vision Fund? How did he help scale eBay & Shutterfly?
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Horatio Alger Series
“and back then it was so hard to find the information when we were coming out there the internet was just coming online microfiche go to the load of the microfiber library and we had to go search for information”
“and then I think we'll have flying cars and it just strikes me remember my high school science teacher saying to me Jeff whatever you read and Isaac Asimov will come true someday”
Passing Minority Report
“but the videos of these things recovering now like you're amazing isn't it's unbelievable people come up to them with like the Minority Report everything's come up to them with sticks and they whack them”