that to come. but here s editor joel weber. joel: we put together a holiday cover for you. jason: what a year. joel: this is one of the biggest stories of the year. and it started with we work, even pre-ipo chatter. as that coverage developed and went on and on, there was another story we started to think about, which was softbank, one of the biggest investors and we were. we work. carol: softbank, we did talk about it so much. what i love is that you guys go into the layers of softbank division fund. obviously the leader of it all, but also other players. visionary at softbank, especially at division fund, this outside force in silicon valley, $100 billion vc fund that can do a lot of work because it has so much money. one of the ways it can do that is go into we work and bankroll we work, a business model that may not have been for the long haul. carol: funny you talk about the business model. jason: joel: let s flood the zone with money. go big or go home. sometimes th
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