#99 - Why investors are not trying to game you right now: Paulo Passoni, ex-Softbank
It was early 2019 when Softbank's official landing in Latin America marked the largest-ever technology fund focused exclusively in the region. LatAm was breaking its own records in terms capital injection, and the firm had already tested the waters with a few juicy checks. So Softbank committed US$ 5 billion to the new Latin American Fund – about the same as all of the region’s venture investments in 2017 and 2018 combined. One of the people leading it was Paulo Passoni. But after three years...