WAR OF WORDS
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"Softbank's lack of transparency in releasing details on its operations, its huge ambitions to have a piece of every Internet pie around the world with no focus within the Internet subsectors, and its as-yet unclear path to profitability contrasts with its counterpart in the U.S., [CMGI]."
INDOSUEZ W.I. CARR SECURITIES RESEARCH REPORT
"Softbank is just a bunch of independent venture-capital operators with varying abilities pushing money here and there and with nothing to show for all their frantic investing."
BENJAMIN WEDMORE, ANALYST, HSBC SECURITIES, TOKYO
"Masa [Masayoshi Son] has the biggest ambition. He just doesn't accept that he can't do something."
GARY RIESCHEL, EXECUTIVE MANAGING DIRECTOR, SOFTBANK VENTURE CAPITAL
"A lot of investors simply do not know what Softbank is doing. The problem is that it is only Son who knows what he wants to do."
LEE YEN ANDERSON, ANALYST, INDOSUEZ W.I. CARR SECURITIES, TOKYO
"We have moved away from the idea of always having to own and control companies, to being the largest and broadest-based participant in the Internet economy."
RON FISHER, VICE-CHAIRMAN, SOFTBANK INC.
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