SoftBank is taking over tech 💸

 

In 1981, Masayoshi Son founded SoftBank Group, and by the peak of the dot-com bubble, his net worth was surging by billions a week. He’d become one of the earliest investors in Yahoo, bet $20 million on Alibaba, and invested in about 800 other startups at the time. Today, he’s still Japan’s richest man.

Credits: AngelList via Outlook

Casino Tropez

 

 

We’re not the biggest fans of gambling here in Gifville, but bills (and taxes) have got to paid, so we’ve let some Cherokee investors from Alabama open up a Monaco-themed casino right on our high street. With roulette,slots and ‘video poker’, we might have struck gold (and champagne), or we’ve just prised open the gates to gaming hell.

Credits: Casino Tropez via Burning Programs!, GifCities and Internet Archive