<story><title>SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-vision-fund-employees-depict-a-culture-of-recklessness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>Softbank isn&amp;#x27;t perfect, but its disappointing to see such a snarky&amp;#x2F;dismissive tone coming from Bloomberg.&lt;p&gt;This is ridiculous:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Three months later, Zume has yet to revolutionize food production or to be profitable&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve worked with Jeff Housenbold. They got his intelligence right, but this nonsense sounds like Gawker not Bloomberg&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Jeff Housenbold,... Acquaintances describe him as smart and arrogant and almost entirely lacking in self-awareness&lt;p&gt;And when did random company gossip become news reported as fact? How does publishing the denial make it OK to report anonymous smears as fact?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Navneet Govil, told a Mormon employee to “go back to Utah to get more wives.” The employee left the company. Via a spokesman, Govil denies making such a statement. Around that time, Govil also berated a young accountant in front of a group, bringing her to tears. She later quit. And at a work lunch a few months later with several colleagues, Govil remarked that “Chinese people sound stupid,” according to two people who heard the comment. Via a spokesman, Govil denies making such a statement or berating the employee; SoftBank says it has no record of these events.</text></comment>
<story><title>SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-18/softbank-vision-fund-employees-depict-a-culture-of-recklessness</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>This is comedy gold:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;After Vision Fund invested $375 million in Zume Pizza Inc., whose mission to use robots to automate pizza making had shades of Silicon Valley frivolity, CEO Alex Garden expanded his mission to include rethinking the entirety of U.S. food production. Employees were unnerved. “Are we the next Theranos?” went one anonymously submitted question at an all-hands meeting over the summer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;edit: More info about Zume and the investment: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;recode&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;20974979&amp;#x2F;zume-pizza-softbank-fundraising-four-billion&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.vox.com&amp;#x2F;recode&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;21&amp;#x2F;20974979&amp;#x2F;zume-pizza-so...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>