03-22-2016, 01:38 AM
The big takeaway you'll read there is that he latches onto underdogs. The cable industry was an underdog in the '70s when he lobbied for them.
By the time they got large in the early-mid '80s he was gone and feeling pressure from them that contributed to killing his business, trying to offer the country's first broadband ISP!
He also said the same scenario played out when he later lobbied for cellphone telcos in the early '90s, who had to pay to use landline connections. Later, after he successfully helped them get big, he was gone.
So in a way he helped create all of this scenario insofar as those industries have gotten hugely powerful, and now it's apparently our turn to benefit from his tenacity.
By the time they got large in the early-mid '80s he was gone and feeling pressure from them that contributed to killing his business, trying to offer the country's first broadband ISP!
He also said the same scenario played out when he later lobbied for cellphone telcos in the early '90s, who had to pay to use landline connections. Later, after he successfully helped them get big, he was gone.
So in a way he helped create all of this scenario insofar as those industries have gotten hugely powerful, and now it's apparently our turn to benefit from his tenacity.