Microsoft and the second Softbank Vision Fund as another play for corporate cloud dominance
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/microsoft-and-the-second-softbank-vision-fund-as-another-play-for-corporate-cloud-dominance/
It looks like the return of Softbank’s Vision Fund may be less reliant on murder money and more reliant on Microsoft’s money-making machine for its backing.
The rumored involvement of Microsoft in financing Softbank Vision Fund II (electric boogaloo?) is interesting for what it may indicate about how the relationship between venture investors, startups, and the large corporations that dominate the tech industry are changing.
