SoftBank's Vision Fund: how a $93bn fund reshaped technology investing

Acquired March 23, 2018

• SoftBank structured the Vision Fund to generate $18bn in guaranteed management fees.
• Masa's $20m Alibaba bet returned $60bn — possibly the best investment ever made.
• Buying Fortress gave SoftBank the operational infrastructure to manage $140bn in assets.

How to maximise impact in a short presentation

Cameron Herold March 22, 2018

• Handouts distributed early steal attention from your talk
• Opening questions that make audiences feel stupid lose the room
• Slowing your voice at key moments lands harder than speed

How Sara Blakely found the idea for Spanx and built a billion-dollar company

Masters of Scale March 21, 2018

• The idea finds the founder who is already actively hunting for it
• Sara built a billion-dollar company from $5,000 with zero industry experience
• Protect early ideas from friends and family — share only with people who can build

How to Find Guest Blogging Sites and Easy Keyword Targets with Content Explorer

Ahrefs March 20, 2018

How Evan Spiegel built Snapchat by rejecting everything Facebook stood for

Founders March 20, 2018

• Facebook's permanence obsession created the exact gap Snapchat filled
• Zuckerberg's Snapchat clone Poke failed and accidentally validated Snapchat instead
• We are not brands — humans contradict themselves, and that is the point