WeWork was long considered one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2019. For SoftBank, WeWork’s biggest outside investor, the listing would be the moment it made a return on the nearly $11bn it poured into the shared-office provider. Now, as WeWork struggles to take the company public, the spotlight is on SoftBank’s Masa Son and his billion-dollar bets. Further FT reading: SoftBank investors brace for Vision Fund writedowns https://www.ft.com/content/ccdaa9c6-d60d-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77 WeWork postpones IPO after chilly response from investors https://www.ft.com/content/b869bc42-d8d9-11e9-8f9b-77216ebe1f17 WeWork: the ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market https://www.ft.com/content/0e426c90-8c45-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972 SoftBank: inside the ‘Wild West’ $100bn fund shaking up the tech world https://www.ft.com/content/71ad7cda-6ef4-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914 Some of Aimee’s favourite FT reads: Warren Buffett: ‘I’m having more fun than any 88-year-old int he world’ https://www.ft.com/content/40b9b356-661e-11e9-a79d-04f350474d62 The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work https://www.ft.com/content/1e8293f4-a1db-11e9-974c-ad1c6ab5efd1 Finding my Armenia, a century after the genocide https://www.ft.com/content/2e2f38b0-e7a1-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3 How Purdue’s ‘one-two’ punch fuelled the market for opioids https://www.ft.com/content/8e64ec9c-b133-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c Angola 3 inmate: from solitary cell to centre of the community https://www.ft.com/content/72a0983a-9f7d-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Investors poured $17bn into agricultural food and technology startups in 2018, fuelled by threats to the world's food supply, including climate change and a growing global population. We visit one such startup, Indigo Ag, which is working with farmers to trial its microbial products for healthier crops. Indigo Ag provides microbial seed treatments to farmers for free in exchange for data. The company also sells the seed treatments through its standard commercial model.  With guests Emiko Terazono, FT commodities correspondent, Ben Riensche, owner and manager, Blue Diamond Farming Company and Geoffrey von Maltzahn, co-founder and chief innovation officer, Indigo Ag.  Read more from Emiko on agricultural food and technology at FT.com: https://www.ft.com/content/ee6fb294-edc3-11e8-8180-9cf212677a57 (paywall) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.