Hey everybody, welcome back to this week at startups.

The story gets crazy, and it's only going to get crazier from this point on because we are reaching

the point in billion-dollar loser.

A great book, must-read Rees Rees Rees Rees

sorry, that comes out today or maybe when you're watching this yesterday.

Well worth getting, it's a great listen to by the way if you're into listening to

audio books and it moves pretty quickly and as we talked about earlier you basically

made the strategic decision to let the facts speak for themselves and really the fact is it was a good

business maybe not a great business not a tech business with a founder who was you know

effervescent mercurial,

but then quickly, who I'll use the word, became deranged

and disconnected from reality.

And as far as you estimate, this happened when that $4 billion infusion comes in and to set the stage here,

Masay Yoshi San, I've met with him, actually when I went to Tokyo, I met with him two hours, two times back to back, three hours each time.

I mean, he is an intense guy.

And he loves ideas and he loves whiteboarding.

But am I correct that Adam showed up late

for his meeting with Masiosi son?

And do you know if this happened in New York or in Tokyo?

The other way around, actually, Masa was late. Masa was late. Masa was late.

Masa was late.

He had an interesting day in New York.

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