Golden egg machine broke

Another reminder that rich people are people

Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read

Okay, this is going to be a weird one. A presentation slide shows a white goose with a glowing cutaway factory inside its body, producing golden eggs labeled “ASI” on a conveyor belt. The slide says: “The True Source of Value: Golden Egg factory inside the goose.”

Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese investment giant, dropped this profoundly weird slide deck a few days ago for his company’s 46^th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. The goose slides (and there are a lot of them!) start on slide 44. The guy has apparently been obsessed with golden goose metaphors for years.

But the whole slide deck is very weird.

The more people you meet, the more obvious it becomes that people are people. It does not matter if someone is rich, famous, successful, or brilliant. For the most part, you can just talk to them. You can just say things. There are exceptions, I’m sure. But people are weird, which means rich people are weird too.

Anyway, this slide deck is very weird.

^{Hat tip to David Gerard of Pivot to AI.}