The billionaire shell game
how cable baron John Malone and assorted corporate titans invented a future nobody wanted
1st ed.
Our rough guess is there are 73,000 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 4 hours and 52 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 10 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
We earn a commission on purchases
Word Count
73,000 words, Guess
Page Count
292 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL344334M
- ISBN-100385479271
- OCLC Control Number38574472
- OCLC Control Numberbillionaireshell00davi
- Library of Congress Control Number98003294
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1126309
- Goodreads552283
Classifications
- DDC384.55/5/0973
- LCCHE8700.72.U6 D38 1998
Description
In 1992, John Malone, the brilliant, hard-nosed, and widely feared CEO of cable giant TCI, announced that the 500-channel information superhighway was imminent, and he was going to build it. Companies by the hundreds, investors by the millions, politicians of all stripes, rushed to embrace this marvel of the age, this technology that would change our lives and make the savvy and the quick rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Trouble was, John Malone's interest in building the 500-channel information superhighway was largely rhetorical. He was much more interested in selling his debt-ridden company, with its notorious reputation for wretched customer service, to Ray Smith at Bell Atlantic - in what would be the largest merger in United States history. But sometimes bluffs - even $33 billion bluffs - get out of hand. The Billionaire Shell Game follows the best and the brightest of the information age - people like Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin, Wired guru Nicholas Negroponte, media mogul Barry Diller, the unpredictable genius Ted Turner, and the only man Malone truly feared, Rupert Murdoch - as they enthusiastically spend their stockholders' money in pursuit of a glittering future.
Subjects
Topics
Places
People
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!