📈 SoftBank survives the Vision Fund blowup - Masa gets to swing again
Contrarian read on the $21B+ Vision Fund quarterly loss: SoftBank is structurally fine and the equity recovers. More than half of the sovereign LP money sits in preferred equity paying a coupon rather than common, SoftBank has already sold down 25% of its Alibaba stake through forwards and derivatives to manage liquidity, and Masa has a fifty-year record of coming back from 99% drawdowns. One more hit, or an Alibaba recovery, closes the gap between the $66B market cap and the underlying assets.
⚖ Why this result
fully deterministic — computed from daily closes on the scoring date; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2022-08-13 → 2023-08-13 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▲ LONG SFTBY (primary play). SFTBY rose 6.1% over the window → return (sign flipped for a SHORT) = +6.1% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +5.6% → vs SPY = +6.1 − (+5.6) = +0.5% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the result uses.
- Rule fired:
· RIGHT — return ≥ +10% AND beat SPY by 5+▶ HALF — return ≥ +5% OR beat SPY at all· WRONG — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a HALF earn 0.5 each, opposers the opposite — this feeds the scoreboard. supported: Chamath, Jason | proxy-sensitive: BABA→MISS (+1.6%)
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2022-08-13)
Plays
Mention log newest first
“SoftBank has found a way to sell down 25% of Alibaba, which is no trivial feat for half a trillion dollar company. This guy gets to keep swinging and if he hits it one more time, he'll end up with half a trillion.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total push on the score, in conviction points across every mention — supports and opposes · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -32.4 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E91 2022-08-13 | init | +20.0 | 20.0 | E91 born by Chamath (sentiment x2) |
| E91 2022-08-13 | reinforce | +14.4 | 34.4 | E91 Jason support x1 (new voice) |
| E92 2022-08-20 | decay | -1.4 | 33.0 | E92 silent |
| E93 2022-08-26 | decay | -1.3 | 31.7 | E93 silent |
| E94 2022-09-01 | decay | -1.3 | 30.4 | E94 silent |
| E95 2022-09-10 | decay | -1.2 | 29.2 | E95 silent |
| E96 2022-09-17 | decay | -1.2 | 28.0 | E96 silent |
| E97 2022-09-23 | decay | -1.1 | 26.9 | E97 silent |
| E98 2022-10-01 | decay | -1.1 | 25.8 | E98 silent |
| E99 2022-10-07 | decay | -1.0 | 24.8 | E99 silent |
| E100 2022-10-14 | decay | -1.0 | 23.8 | E100 silent |
| E101 2022-10-22 | decay | -1.0 | 22.9 | E101 silent |
| E102 2022-10-29 | decay | -0.9 | 22.0 | E102 silent |
| E103 2022-11-05 | decay | -0.9 | 21.1 | E103 silent |
| E105 2022-11-19 | decay | -0.8 | 20.2 | E105 silent |
| E106 2022-12-03 | decay | -0.8 | 19.4 | E106 silent |
| E107 2022-12-10 | decay | -0.8 | 18.6 | E107 silent |
| E108 2022-12-16 | decay | -0.7 | 17.9 | E108 silent |
| E109 2022-12-24 | decay | -0.7 | 17.2 | E109 silent |
| E110 2023-01-06 | decay | -0.7 | 16.5 | E110 silent |
| E111 2023-01-13 | decay | -0.7 | 15.8 | E111 silent |
| E112 2023-01-20 | decay | -0.6 | 15.2 | E112 silent |
| E113 2023-01-27 | decay | -0.6 | 14.6 | E113 silent |
| E114 2023-02-04 | decay | -0.6 | 14.0 | E114 silent |
| E115 2023-02-11 | decay | -0.6 | 13.5 | E115 silent |
| E116 2023-02-17 | decay | -0.5 | 12.9 | E116 silent |
| E118 2023-03-03 | decay | -0.5 | 12.4 | E118 silent |
| E119 2023-03-11 | decay | -0.5 | 11.9 | E119 silent |
| E120 2023-03-17 | decay | -0.5 | 11.4 | E120 silent |
| E121 2023-03-24 | decay | -0.5 | 11.0 | E121 silent |
| E122 2023-03-31 | decay | -0.4 | 10.5 | E122 silent |
| E123 2023-04-07 | decay | -0.4 | 10.1 | E123 silent |
| E124 2023-04-14 | decay | -0.4 | 9.7 | E124 silent |
| E125 2023-04-21 | decay | -0.4 | 9.3 | E125 silent |
| E126 2023-04-28 | decay | -0.4 | 8.9 | E126 silent |
| E128 2023-05-12 | decay | -0.4 | 8.6 | E128 silent |
| E129 2023-05-19 | decay | -0.3 | 8.2 | E129 silent |
| E130 2023-05-26 | decay | -0.3 | 7.9 | E130 silent |
| E131 2023-06-02 | decay | -0.3 | 7.6 | E131 silent |
| E132 2023-06-10 | decay | -0.3 | 7.3 | E132 silent |
| E133 2023-06-16 | reinforce | +13.9 | 21.2 | E133 Chamath support x2 |
| E134 2023-06-24 | decay | -0.8 | 20.4 | E134 silent |
| E135 2023-07-01 | decay | -0.8 | 19.5 | E135 silent |
| E136 2023-07-09 | decay | -0.8 | 18.8 | E136 silent |
| E137 2023-07-14 | decay | -0.8 | 18.0 | E137 silent |
| E139 2023-07-27 | decay | -0.7 | 17.3 | E139 silent |
| E140 2023-08-04 | decay | -0.7 | 16.6 | E140 silent |
| E141 2023-08-11 | decay | -0.7 | 15.9 | E141 silent |