Words: Tom Ward
It’s been an interesting few months for SoftBank, the Japanese conglomerate that owns stakes in Boston Dynamics and Uber alongside more established entities such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. It started in September when SoftBank was revealed as the ‘Nasdaq Whale’ after hoovering up billions of dollars worth of big tech stocks – a development which the FT described as an “aggressive move into the options market [that] marks a new chapter for the investment powerhouse”.
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