Bloomberg (July 5)
“If Masayoshi Son won’t invest in Japan, why should you? His $100 billion Vision Fund is noticeably absent on its home turf. That speaks volumes about the health of the country’s startup scene.” Although “Shinzo Abe’s government aims to produce 20 unicorns by 2023. The chances of pulling that off are sobering.” Japan currently only has two “while the U.S. has 179 unicorns, China 93, and India 18.”
Tags: Abe, China, Government, Invest, Japan, Son, Startups, U.S., Unicorns, Vision Fund
Washington Post (July 4)
Trump’s Fourth of July pageantry was “outrageous, of course, but not surprising. It was clear from the beginning that Independence Day meant nothing more to Trump than an opportunity to choreograph a made-for-television reelection event and give himself an obscenely expensive ego massage.” Ironically, however, “he ended up looking small” by trying “to make Independence Day all about him.”
