Hasan Chowdhury

I sat down with @lionelbarber ahead of the release of his new book on Masayoshi Son. We discussed the life of the enigmatic SoftBank founder, a perennial outsider and high-stakes gambler who has bet his career on a singular vision of the future. businessinsider.com/masayoshi-son-…

Views from Kyoto

Greetings from Mount Fuji

Every day is a slow day on the crime desk at a Japanese newspaper

lol UBS calls it “acquisition”, CS calls it “merger”

New: the rise of OpenAI has put Sam Altman at the helm of arguably the most consequential technology today. But experts warn of uncomfortable parallels between Altman and Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media empire changed the world forever. My deep dive businessinsider.com/ai-technology-…

New from me + @thebenbergman + @_hasanc: buckle up for a tale of Softbank's terrible, no good, really bad year, told to us from former employees, investors, and rival VCs. businessinsider.com/inside-softban…

Scoop w/@CallumBurroughs: US venture capital firm Sequoia has written down its stake in British chip firm Graphcore. The company, valued at almost $3 billion, is currently undergoing layoffs globally. businessinsider.com/graphcore-sequ…

New w/@CallumBurroughs: Some of Europe’s most prized startups have started to show signs of weakness as layoffs and valuation cuts mount. Several VCs told us that worse is yet to come for a region desperate to prove it can emulate Silicon Valley businessinsider.com/europes-tech-c…

🚨 Scoop w/@_hasanc: Grocery delivery startup Gorillas is set to raise $250m in funding from internal investors in a bid to extend the company's runway. The deal comes on the back of the business cutting half of its staff in May. More on @BusinessInsider: businessinsider.com/rapid-grocery-…

New: Tiger Global backed the ‘Netflix of Russia’ a decade ago. Now, the New York hedge fund’s bet sits uncomfortably alongside investments from Roman Abramovich and other sanctioned entities businessinsider.com/tiger-global-h…

TELEGRAPH BUSINESS: Blacklisted Chinese firm has 1m CCTV cameras in UK #TomorrowsPapersToday

Exc: spoke to Sir Richard Branson about Virgin Galactic's future plans after the company announced it was going public in merger with Social Capital Hedosophia, the investment vehicle of ex-Facebook billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya: telegraph.co.uk/technology/201…

Why is Elon Musk’s profile picture Edward Elric from FMA rather than Edward Elric from FMA:B

I’m off to Shanghai, see ya

The celebration of Eid al-Fitr in 1928. Muslims from across the UK travelled to attend the ceremony at Woking Mosque #BritainOnFilm

One of the important things #anthonybourdain did was humanize Muslims without changing their ingredients. He showed Iranians while he ate sangak; Egyptians while he ate fūl, Lebanese while he ate fatūsh and Senegalese while he ate Mafé,