The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank invested some $16 billion in WeWork before the office-sharing company declared bankruptcy this week, marking one of the worst venture capital investments in history.SoftBank's commitments to the firm since 2017 included a $1.5 billion debt payment wired to a group of lenders led by Goldman Sachs on , according to bankruptcy documents filed on Tuesday.The huge failed bet blotted SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son's reputation as a shrewd investor, and Son has publicly admitted that he overestimated WeWork and its erratic co-founder Adam Neumann.
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