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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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The Japanese Company That Turned Points Into a Country-Sized Ecosystem
Ecommerce · Fintech · Marketplace

The Japanese Company That Turned Points Into a Country-Sized Ecosystem

One membership, one currency, seventy-plus services. Rakuten built its empire not by winning a single market, but by making customers unwilling to leave any of them.

rakuten · ecommerceRead →
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SoftBank Group Corp.
Ai · Vc · Fintech

SoftBank Group Corp.

SoftBank began as a software wholesaler and became a telecom operator, a startup financier and now an aspiring owner of the AI stack. Its latest wager ties models, chips, data centers and robots into one capital-intensive system.

softbank-group · artificial-intelligenceRead →