SoftBank's latest shareholder presentation turned heads with its odd goose-and-golden-eggs metaphor, casting the company as an undervalued bird whose market price fails to reflect its true asset worth. The slides, shown during Masayoshi Son's AGM remarks, highlight a gap between share price and net asset value while Son signals he will keep steering the firm toward artificial superintelligence goals well into his seventies.
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect.
https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf
Screenshots of the zero-value goose next to three shiny eggs quickly became tech-meme fodder across platforms, with users sharing the eccentric visuals from the official deck.
The presentation frames continued leadership around ambitious net-asset-value growth and superintelligence platform ambitions, though exact timelines beyond the broad seventy-something horizon remain illustrative rather than fixed.
Positive users enjoyed SoftBank's memorable goose slides for their creativity and entertainment, while negative users criticized them as embarrassing or an allegory for financial fraud.
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these two slides run one after another.
@edzitron I can't get over this
@edzitron legendary poster. i dont get why the banks didnt lend him those 10 billion dollars backed by OAI equity. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric-presentations-of-masayoshi-son
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@sarahdc I've never personally seen inside a goose and thus I can't dispute what they're saying here.
@snapherantlers "Four years later, the “goose premium” failed to materialize and Son took a different approach, relying on the raw power of mathematics."
@edzitron SoftBank never fails with these
@edzitron Tbh was finally getting comfortable with the inexplicable presence of a metaphorical goose before its guts - sorry, "internal mechanism" - were so rudely exposed
@edzitron Treasuring this out of context
@matvelloso It's very shocking
@edzitron maybe the greatest image I have ever seen
@edzitron The goose being majestic at the end is the best part omg
whenever i am mildly inconvenienced
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect.
https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf
@edzitron You misspelled Masaponzi Son pls fix
@edzitron They missed the slide where the white goose turns into a black swan.
@edzitron I am convinced Soft Bank is just performance art critiizing capitalism by seeing how much money they can light on fire before someone stops them.
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@edzitron The most Gavin Belson presentation I've ever seen
@edzitron This is one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen and really lends credence to the "corpo speak" meme about slide decks and buzz words.
I don't even understand what he's trying to convey here.
@edzitron I'm stealing the last slide soooooooo fucking funny
