A business Powerpoint presentation — apparently genuinely made by someone at a company called Softbank — includes this educational image of a goose with a caption that says “Goose was not valued.”
Call it a metaphor, call it whatever you like, this Powerpoint slide brings renewed meaning to the old business phrase “goosing the numbers”.
‘Goose’ Bank in the News
Softbank has been in the news recently for other reasons, too — reasons perhaps related, perhaps not.
Here are some headlines:
- “Talk of a bubble is ‘blasphemy against AI’ says SoftBank’s Son” [Reuters, June 24, 2026]
- “Softbank CEO Who’s Invested $64 Billion in OpenAI Says It’s ‘Blasphemy’ to Mention the AI Bubble“[Futurism, June 25, 2026]
- “SoftBank’s Shares Tumble After Report of OpenAI’s IPO Delay” [Bloomberg, June 26, 2026]