Japanese
billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, a telecommunications and
tech investment group, revealed plans for the fund last October and since then it has obtained commitments from some of the world's most deep -
pocketed investors.
But in another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, there are echoes of a similar
tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, who used his deep
pockets to secretly fund a campaign against Gawker.