想读一个关于这位硅谷创始人和软银投资者对他镀金长袍的崇拜的寓言吗？很好，因为彭博商业周刊有一个内部故事，详细描述了Zume的内爆，那就是机器人做的比萨饼，在送货启动时做的。Zume的联合创始人兼联合首席执行官亚历克斯•加登（Alex Garden）吸引了软银的儿子Masayoshi的3.75亿美元投资，在亚当•纽曼（Adam Neumann）倒霉的WeWork任职期间，儿子向他提供了30亿美元的风险投资。

以下是彭博社对Garden和Son第一次会面的描述：

”Two years ago a truck covered with large photos of pizza pies nosed its way onto a long Bay Area driveway. It was ferrying Alex Garden, the chief executive officer of Zume Pizza Inc., to the home of SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son. Zume’s pitch was robots that could make pizzas a person would want to eat, so Son climbed aboard in the driveway of his Woodside, Calif., estate to watch as the truck’s ovens fired up some robot-made pies, according to people familiar with the meeting.”

在加登离开时，他正准备投资3.75亿美元的软银远景基金。根据彭博社的报道，孙正义忍不住要对由史蒂夫•乔布斯（Steve Jobsian）的创始人执掌的科技初创公司进行巨额押注：

”If a founder seems brash enough, chari**atic enough, reminiscent enough of a younger Son, some of SoftBank’s rigorous ­business-model tests appear to melt away.”

硅谷的首席执行官们因高调宣称自己有能力用平凡的产品和服务改变世界而受到了应有的批评。根据彭博社的报道，嘉顿，一家备受赞誉的比萨饼**商，当然也没什么不同：

”In the fall of 2018, SoftBank delivered its Vision Fund cash. After one conversation with Son, Garden choked up relaying the details to a confidant, saying, “Masa says I’m going to change the world,” this person recalls.”

今年1月，Zume解雇了一半以上的员工，并像他们在硅谷所说的那样“转向”，因为失败让投资者担心如何弥补损失。Zume现在专注于为其他食品配送公司提高包装和效率。

整个故事值得一读，只要理解这句话怎么可能存在：

”Garden spent serious cash to buy and convert a double-decker bus from London into a giant pizza truck named Martha for Day Z.”