https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/how-softbanks-bets-wework-totaled-16-bln-2023-11-07/

I wonder if they are a front for some kind of plunge protection team, tasked with holding the fort in a massively overpriced market sector. Meanwhile, the insiders hand the bag to the institutional investors who are better placed to demand a taxpayer bailout when the crash comes.