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Today: When it pertains to start-up founders, Masa’s got a “type”

VCs like to talk a lot about “pattern acknowledgment,” the incredible ability to observe when start-ups and business owners have the ideal mix of traits– even when those traits aren’t outwardly obvious– that anticipate if a recently established service is destined for achievement.

Whether this vaunted technique really causes great investments, or, as some critics compete, merely reinforces existing predispositions and a lack of diversity in tech, is an open question. And that debate is likely to get once again in the year ahead, as observers scrutinize the investing track record of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and his $100 billion Vision Fund.

As Megan Hernbroth reports, a number of the startups that have actually won Masa’s favor have actually been captained by founders with eerily comparable attributes Megan composes:

They’re almost constantly male, frequently middle-aged, and share much of Masa’s own qualities, showing his idea of success. Possibly more than anything else, they are gifted storytellers, efficient in inspiring staff members to go all in on world-changing “missions” that, in other scenarios, may look like regular business undertakings.

That sounds a lot like WeWork’s Adam Neumann, who wished to “elevate the world’s consciousness” through office sharing. As Megan reports, other creators in the Vision Fund portfolio, including Zume’s Alex Garden and Fair’s Scott Painter, also appear to fit the profile.

Some of these founders (those, that is, who have actually not been ousted) may ultimately turn their business into world-changing successes. After all, Masayoshi Son’s original bet on a creator nearly 20 years earlier was Alibaba’s Jack Ma. That’s worked out pretty well.

However given the existing status of WeWork, which has lost over half its worth in the months since investors rejected its IPO, there’s factor to question whether Masa’s fondness for a specific sort of founder is an investing edge or a deadly attraction.

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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has a ‘type’ and the founders he bets on look a lot like Adam Neumann

A clash of viewpoints in the quest to rule the cloud

Recently, we drawn up the group of power players leading Microsoft’s cloud attack on Amazon’s AWS organisation.

This week, Ashley Stewart provides some insight into the mindset within the group. Ashley got hold of the list of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s leadership concepts These are the ideals drawn from the method that helped Nadella revitalize Microsoft’s business and turn it into a trillion-dollar business. The Nadella management concepts are needed reading for new managers and Microsoft even hosts an online course and discussion sessions about them.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has his well-known “14 management principles” too, obviously. So, in the battle between Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, we see a clash of competing clouds … and approaches.

Rosalie Chan, on the other hand, talked with more than a lots AWS partners, including execs at companies like Snowflake and MongoDB, to get their take on the competitors.

Is this a winner-take-all contest? Will each of the cloud giants own various worlds and company sections? Does anyone have an ace in the hole? The answers are comprehensive and very informative.

Some think that Google has a shot at making it a three-way oligopoly. And one officer even recommended that a Chinese provider might eventually emerge as the king of the cloud, thanks to the aggressive around the world growth of Chinese companies.

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Microsoft makes all new supervisors check out and review these leadership principles from CEO Satya Nadella

We asked 13 software application execs whether Microsoft can fall Amazon in the cloud, and they state there’s an opportunity however it’ll be a tough battle

Hacking the voice platform

The recent reports of Ring video cameras getting hacked by weird wrongdoers are troubling. And we’re most likely to see more of these types of incidents as our houses end up being increasingly gotten in touch with clever home appliances and voice-based devices like smart speakers, which are amongst the most popular presents this vacation season.

Troy Wolverton offers a sobering look at some of the risks and vulnerabilities of those cute clever speakers. From fake variations of sites designed for clever speakers to sneaky tricks using laser beams, hackers are finding great deals of chances to make use of the new generation of voice-based gizmos.

Troy’s story becomes part of our special report on the shift to voice computing

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Hackers are creating creative methods to fool the microphones in wise speakers, and it’s opening a ‘brand-new world of risks’

Here are some other tech highlights:

• Intel invested $2 billion to purchase another AI chip start-up, and a Wall Street analyst states the offer recommends its AI master strategy is struggling
• Twitter’s former head of media has raised $25 million from a who’s who of Silicon Valley to purchase startups
• Amazon has helped safeguard some vendors from the Trump tariffs by paying them approximately 25%more for the goods it resells
• This VC states that the next wave in cloud software application will utilize AI to assist you improve at your work– and to retrain individuals who lose their jobs to robotics
• 23 hot startups that wish to go public in 2020, and the 2 Silicon Valley endeavor firms that will clean up when they do

And more big stories from throughout the BI newsroom:

• ‘ Uncle Jeff’: Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the 24- year-old daughter of billionaire hedge-fund founder Glenn Dubin is more complicated than formerly understood
• We mapped 4 generations of Tiger Management descendants: it shows Julian Robertson at the center of a quarter-trillion-dollar web that links billionaires, the Pharma Brother, and a ‘Huge Brief’ primary character
• We talked to Wall Street’s 7 top-performing financiers to get their tricks for success– and their best ideas for 2020
• The 10 finest markets in 2020 for entrepreneurs to begin million-dollar services

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— Alexei

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