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Masayoshi Son (founder of Softbank and the legendary Vision Found) was lucky with Alibaba once. His strategy is literally (confirmed by many founders) that if you throw enough money in there (usually in 150mn+), it'll scale and be a unicorn.
Well, what do you think happens if you are a unicorn founder raising maybe 500k-2mn and some oversees fund comes along and gives you 170mn with the only goal of scaling globally.
Launch events here, new market there, private jets, ... Softbank and Son is also known for his lax oversight in his investments and throwing more money at it when they become bankrupt.
Another famous example is WeWork (10bn+ investment by Softbank).
And every story is just exceptionally dumb and easily avoidable.
Source: Experience