Marcelo Claure Has Big Plan for His Billions After SoftBank Exit

Marcelo Claure is probably best known in the world of high finance as the hulking deputy to SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son. More specifically, the guy who ran the cleanup job at the investment firm’s most spectacular debacle, WeWork.

Claure, standing a towering 6-foot-6 (2 meters), is ready to be known for something else: a preeminent investor in his own right.

That’s a stiffer challenge than it was just six months ago, when he left SoftBank after a contentious split from Son, his onetime mentor. Not only have the plunging valuations of the Japanese firm’s investments cast a shadow, but those who’ve worked closely ...