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Technology Stocks : divine interVentures, Inc. (DVIN)
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To: astyanax who wrote (33)2/6/2000 3:34:00 AM
From: Edwin S. Fujinaka   of 246
 
The term Zaibatsu seems to imply money and power more than just a commercial alliance. Of course politicians the World over seem to wind up sucking up to the rich and powerful in one way or another. The politicians provide a useful service to these rich powerful entities, they can smooth the legal path to make things easier for whoever has their favor. I suspect that Bill Gates never could bring himself to play the game and He is suffering the consequences. If Gates was headquartered in Chicago He wouldn't have been able to ignore the political power structure. They wouldn't have tolerated that <G>. The Daley Family epitomizes the insiders political power with one son as Mayor and the other son in the Commerce Department in Washington DC. Pay careful attention to what happens to the laws that affect DVIN. Hopefully they won't notice us talking about it and come and fit us for those famous chicago cement shoes <G>.

I saw that the head of DVIN was quoted as saying that his new DVIN would not make the mistake of trying to own 100% of their subsidiaries because that has a negative effect on the entreprenurial spirit within the subsidiary. I believe that Son has explicitly known that for almost the entirety of Softbank's existence. Son seems to want control (over 50%) of the ventures in his own backyard, but He seems to really only want around 25% of those ventures outside Japan so the owners will still agressively pursue the building of their companies. I could see a small softbank investment in DVIN so they could support their political activities and have the inside knowledge of how it is going. Although it appears that all of these internet zaibatsus are competing against each other in some areas, they probably have some common interests when it comes to politics and the law. If none of these guys will fund your idea, it's probably a really dumb idea <G>.
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