I get the circlejerk being borderline unethical but this just beats any fucking sense out the window. Softbank wanted equity in OpenAI but did not have money, so they took a loan from OpenAI and used it to purchase equity in OpenAI. This does not make any fucking sense!!!
Softbank is investing in OpenAI by taking a loan from OpenAI and using that money to purchase equity in OpenAI???
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It makes just as much sense as JPM giving me margin so that I can buy more shares in JPM.
A perfect circle of infinity.
Is ChatGPT hallucinating or am I?
I’m guessing they need to post collateral. So it’s basically a margin loan, perhaps to protect softbank from realizing capital gains tax.
Posting zerohedge in 2026
This guys been a meme for years doomposting about china and other stuff
This is like borrowing money from the fridge to buy groceries, only to eat all the groceries on the way back.
Endgame
Uuhhh, what is a leveraged buyout? This happens all the time. Private equity companies take their partnership money, slap some down on the table along with short term loans to buy a company. As soon as possible the split up the company and sell some parts to pay off the loan and make a profit. They then make the company they still control borrow heavily and pay themselves bonuses. Then they sell the near insolvent company to some schmucks. They make money three ways and effectively they borrow money from the bought company to buy the company.
Softbank investing into shady companies only to get cucked later, tale as old as time
We are so back! Calls it is
Can’t wait for the post nut clarity
How is SoftBank taking a loan from OpenAI?
No wonder so many of you in here lose so much money. Do you believe everything you read on twitter. Fuck you are all morons. Go and research this yourself and you will find out the truth in two seconds.
OpenAI is not lending Softbank the money [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/softbank-seeks-record-loan-of-up-to-40-billion-for-openai-stake](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/softbank-seeks-record-loan-of-up-to-40-billion-for-openai-stake)