Viewsroom: SoftBank’s double trouble
Viewsroom
Reuters
4.4 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:40.4 | Hello, you're listening to The Views Room, brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Jennifer Seba, and I'm joined by my colleagues, Anna Schumansky. |
| 0:48.6 | Hey, Anna. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello. |
| 0:50.3 | And Rob Siren. |
| 0:51.7 | Hello, Rob. |
| 0:52.8 | Hey, Jen. |
| 0:53.4 | All right, so we're just going to get right into it. This week we're going to talk about SoftBank |
| 0:57.9 | and its convoluted connections between two of its troubled assets, WeWork and Sprint. |
| 1:03.8 | So we're going to start with the news that earlier this week, SoftBank was in talks with T-Mobile's CEO, John Ledger, |
| 1:14.5 | to possibly become the new chief executive of WeWork, according to several press reports. So this is a really weird piece of news. |
| 1:22.0 | We're where to start with this. I don't even know. It's a small, small world around WeWork. |
| 1:26.6 | And SoftBank. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, it's tiny, tiny little universe. |
| 1:31.0 | So the thing that really jumps out at me is, so just to kind of back up a little bit, |
| 1:39.0 | but T-Mobile is currently in talks to merge with Sprint, which is owned by SoftBank. |
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