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It's mostly oil money. They have to park it somewhere. The Vision fund is a nice cover to invest in fancy tech companies but there's no real selection process. Instead they relied on having so much money that they can just buy their way to success.

Now they're realizing it's not that simple to deploy $100 billion without vastly skewing the market and basically creating their own bubble.

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