SoftBank is now "involved in a plan to buy nearly a fifth of the existing stock of Uber," by accumulating Uber's stock "through a tender offer that could value the company at a discount to its current valuation of $68.5 billion," say sources. If the deal is successfully concluded, "Son would own significant chunks of ride-hailing companies globally because SoftBank already owns stakes in Uber's rivals like Didi Chuxing in China and Ola in India," which represent "a network of companies that gather valuable logistics data and operate large, connected fleets that could work well with self-driving car technology." "Masa is in a hurry," said Indian digital payments startup Paytm chief executive Vijay Sharma, whose company received a $1.4 billion investment from SoftBank. "He sees this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where everything we touch can become a market, where we're at the opening up of a new industrial revolution."