VC · #3317
SoftBank Vision
The biggest check. WeWork is the ick. Founders got canned.
$100B AUM · Late · Tokyo / London
- Founder-GP
- None. Discounted.
- Help
- 28They canned Neumann. Not founder-friendly. The ick.
- Typical check
- $100–500MThe biggest check. Late.
- Impact/$
- 0.4×
- Friendly
- Ick. Canned Adam Neumann at WeWork. Tape
On our ledger
Associate · market
$165k
$142k–$180k. Market reports, 2026. Not a work-email tick. Carry is the product after partner.
- Vision Fund AUM $100B+.
- WeWork: Neumann ousted. Public tape.
- WeWork: founder ousted after Vision Fund. Public tape.
- Vision Fund $100B+ AUM.
- · Vintage chart is the field (Cambridge / Preqin / Carta medians). Firm IRRs are private. We do not invent them.
- · Score 0–99: founder-GP, S-tier unicorns, founder-rated help, overlap with our hottest seats, public outcome ranks (Strebulaev-Jackson, Dealroom).
- · No founder-GP: the book is discounted. Operator partnerships are not the same as having built a company.
- · Help is Founders Choice Elo where published, else a public-tape read. 92% of VCs claim value-add; 15% of founders call it critical.
- · Impact/$ is a TrustBand multiplier: S-tier hits per √(AUM × typical check). Small books that still hit, win.
- · If they iced the founder and canned them, they are not founder-friendly. Hard cut. Public tape only (Uber/Travis, WeWork/Neumann).
- · You cannot buy this rank.