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Masayoshi Son, legendary head of Japan’s SoftBank and the SoftBank Vision Fund might need to take a chill pill. In fact he needs to cool his jets. 

Too many reckless bets and just a little too much fire in the belly have seriously impaired the much feted Vision Fund’s performance over this past year.

Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba apparently recently told Son, “too much money” inevitably leads to “a lot of mistakes”. It seems he’s onto something.

Astute market watchers should have ...

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