bloomberg has a good article on some of softbank's current difficulties (quoted below). i believe softbank can start selling their coupang share in september, but i want to go through the paperwork to make sure about that. right now i just have this old article that says it
https://investorplace.com/2021/04/could-softbanks-recent-success-be-undoing-cpng-stock/
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...iquidate-assets-to-meet-its-growing-debt-pile
"The last time SoftBank’s current ratio was this low, in September 2018, it got out of the hole by offloading shares, including the $4 billion
sale of its position in Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart, as well as stakes in U.S. and Japanese telecom operators T-Mobile US Inc. and SoftBank Corp. At that time, the company also used its holdings of Nvidia Corp. — bought in the open market well before the Arm deal — and Alibaba as backing for more loans.
But most of those assets are unavailable now. SoftBank could keep borrowing against Alibaba, but that well is almost dry. Instead, it will likely need to offset the most liquid of its holdings, which include a $5.6 billion stake quietly built in Amazon.com Inc., $812 million of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., and$702 millionin PayPal Holdings Inc."
Then there are the unicorns. Most of
the big names in the Vision Fund have already listed — among the most recent being the June offering of Chinese ride-sharing provider Didi Global Inc., food-delivery operator DoorDash Inc. and Coupang. SoftBank still holds onto its stakes in these companies, but that will need to change as debt payments loom."