It raised $ 4.4 billion in funding from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund
over the
course of several months; bought the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building for $ 850 million to serve as its new headquarters; is
adding a second headquarters at the new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco; led a $ 32 million funding round in New York startup The Wing; and has bought
several other startups, most recently spending $ 200 million on Meetup.
Over the
course of several months the two artists mailed multiple artworks back and forth between their respective homes in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, each
adding their own surprise elements to metamorphosize the project.