The mechanism actually doesn't even really matter. It's an inside a share sale that sets this valuation of $500 billion. But it feels like just yesterday that we broke the story on the last $300 billion valuation.Tell us about the jump. Tell us about what we're hearing from sources is going on. Yeah.I mean, it's a significant jump in valuation. More than two thirds of the last price tag, you know, the last round that we reported on, it finalized in March led by SoftBank. Since then, we've seen strong, you k ...

Peter. 500 billion. I mean, suddenly everything changes in terms of valuations for the big leaders.Yeah, it's quite a scoop. I mean, really, this is this is open air trying to reward some of its employees, its current employees and its former employees. Back in the old days, startups just didn't do this sort of thing.They didn't want people to be able to cash out of their stock, partly because they thought it would maybe lose some interest in the company. Also, they didn't want them to get too rich, that th ...

Bankers from Hong Kong to London have been hit by pay cuts and layoffs as the global economy contracts. But in Japan, there's a hiring boom. So, I think several factors are coming together at the same time to create this perfect storm.The Japanese market is interesting again because inflation is back. Money is very easy to borrow. uh there's a weak yen leading now to a surge in trading for Japanese government bonds, Japanese stocks um and also a burst in foreign investment and this is coming after years of ...