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H.B.R. presents. Hi there I'm Azimazar and you're listening to Exponential View. It's the

podcast where I explore what the near future holds for us good and bad with some of the

world's most brilliant minds, people who are building or imagining the future.

Today's guest is Deep Nishar, a senior managing partner of Soft Bank's Vision Fund,

the largest VC fund in the world.

Deep arrived in the US for his MBA with two suitcases and $200 in his pocket.

After serving in senior roles at Google and LinkedIn and founding his own company,

Deep joined the Vision Fund, the world's largest tech-focused VC fund,

backers of Uber and We Work, with over $100 billion in capital.

At the Vision Fund, DeepPants for new opportunities in Frontier Tech, Enterprise and Health Tech. Now before we get started, I just want to let you know that because of the disruption caused by the pandemic,

our sound quality won't be the usual crisp standards, but the content is really great.

The second note to declare as I'm an advisor to a seed stage venture

capital fund in London, we're at the other end of Deep's investing cycle, typically investing

around a million euros. But I do feel I should let you know all about that as we have a couple of companies in similar

spaces to Deep's own.

With that out the way, Deep, what a pleasure it is to have you on the podcast.

Thank you Azim is great pleasure to be here as well despite the circumstances.

Well let's start with the circumstances so we're recording this in the middle of March 2020

and we're in the middle of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. It's a pandemic that's in its very fast growth stages so by the time people listen to this podcast, the world may have changed again.

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