据知情人士透露，软银首席运营官马塞洛·克劳尔（Marcelo Claure）正准备从这家日本科技集团辞职，最早可能在周四。
知情人士说，克劳尔几个月来一直在讨论离开软银，因为谈判是私下进行的，他们要求不具名。其中一位知情人士说，克劳尔可能正在寻求经营自己的投资公司。
Claure 在以 12.6 亿美元的价格将无线提供商 Brightstar 的多数股权出售给软银后，于 2013 年加入软银。他后来成为软银控股多数股权的 Sprint 的首席执行官，该公司于 2020 年 4 月成功与 T-Mobile 合并。
当 Claure 于 2018 年卸任 Sprint 首席执行官时，他在软银担任了其他职务，包括软银集团首席运营官和软银集团国际首席执行官。 2019 年 10 月，在 Son 帮助创始人 Adam Neumann 退出公司后，董事长兼首席执行官孙正义选择了他来改造 WeWork。
《纽约时报》报道称，克劳尔希望软银为扭转 WeWork 的局面而获得 20 亿美元的赔偿，WeWork 于 10 月通过特殊目的收购工具上市，并成功地将 Sprint 与 T-Mobile 合并。彭博社周四早些时候报道称，克劳尔因与孙正义的薪酬分歧而辞职。
这不是孙正义的亲密顾问第一次突然离开公司。 Nikesh Arora 于 2016 年离开软银，最终接替孙正义，当时孙正义认为他还没有准备好下台。孙正义的另一位高级副手阿洛克·萨马 (Alok Sama) 于 2019 年离开了公司。
Softbank COO Marcelo Claure, right-hand man to Masa Son, is leaving the company, sources say
SoftBank Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure is preparing to resign from the Japanese technology conglomerate, perhaps as soon as Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.
Claure has been in discussions to leave SoftBank for several months, said the people, who asked not to be named because the negotiations are private. Claure may be looking to run his own investment firm, one of the people said.
Claure joined SoftBank in 2013 after selling a majority stake of wireless provider Brightstar to the company for $1.26 billion. He later became CEO of the SoftBank majority-owned Sprint, which successfully merged with T-Mobile in April 2020.
When Claure stepped down as Sprint chief in 2018, he took on additional roles at SoftBank, including COO at SoftBank Group and CEO at SoftBank Group International. Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son chose him to revamp WeWork in October 2019 after Son helped push out founder Adam Neumann from running the company.
The New York Times reported Claure wanted $2 billion in compensation from SoftBank for turning around WeWork, which went public via a special purpose acquisition vehicle in October, and successfully putting Sprint together with T-Mobile. Bloomberg reported earlier Thursday that Claure is stepping down due to compensation disagreements with Son.
This isn't the first time a close advisor to Son has abruptly departed the company. Nikesh Arora, who arrived at SoftBank to eventually succeed Son, left in 2016 when Son decided he wasn't ready to step down. Alok Sama, another top Son lieutenant, left the company in 2019.
