Name: Insights: How Today's Startups Have Changed Investing
Uploaded: 2020-01-15
Duration: 1 min 47 s
Description: Many founders are choosing to stay private longer. (June 2019)

[MUSIC PLAYING] Has the environment changed for startups and innovators? So the environment has changed for startups and innovators. Founders are preferring to stay private for much longer. And that's where the SoftBank Vision Fund also comes in, providing them with that long-term patient capital, that freedom level capital, to allow them to do that and to be bigger and bolder in their ambitions. The environment has changed in terms of the power of technology here and now. So as we look at companies and founders, we look for bold visions. We look for the use of data, the use of technology for transformation. We look at proven business models that we can somehow scale globally. The scaling globally is also another aspect in terms of aspirations of entrepreneurs. And the vision phenomena of if you don't scale globally quickly, you risk losing out to local players. Interesting. That's interesting. And so if you have the candidate-- You have to have that. --You have that expertise and you have the kind of geographic capabilities that sum up a company like SoftBank and SoftBank Vision can provide. It allows you to do that. And I must highlight we do have woman co-founders, with companies like Brandless. We have the CEO of [INAUDIBLE] is a woman. We have underrepresented minority representation among our companies. Our minimum check size is 100 million. 

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Many founders are choosing to stay private longer. 

How Today's Startups Have Changed Investing

Many founders are choosing to stay private longer. (June 2019)

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