Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, November 5th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

How are things in Mossesan's world post-Wework? How long until Uber will be profitable?

How is the new Surface Pro X to use?

Why is iOS aggressively quitting background apps

and why data scoring companies are maybe worse than credit

score companies. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Part of the fascination with the We Work Saga also involves fascination with

the Vision Fund, Soft Bank and Massasan. In short, Adam Newman couldn't have done what he did if he weren't at least to some degree,

enabled by money folk who should have known better.

Two separate stories today about what's going on in Masa Land after the We Work debacle.

First, the Financial Times is reporting that going forward in order to prevent other

Adam Newmans from blowing up their investments, SoftBank is adding new governance standards

for companies it backs to limit the outsized control of founders. From now on, SoftBank will look to have at least one board seat,

require one independent director on the board,

banned directors from owning supervoting shares themselves,

and limit founders to less than half of the seats on the board.

Quote, the attention on governance standards marks a shift for soft bank founder Masayoshi Son,

known as a risk addicted dealmaker who claims to be guided by a gut feeling that lets him

quote feel the force. His quick decision-making and belief in his own ability to pick winners

in the technology industry has come into question following

the poor performance of a number of high profile bets such as car booking app Uber.

The broad autonomy typically afforded to the creators of Silicon Valley companies has caused

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