Money from Thin Air (Review and Analysis of Corr's Book)
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This complete summary of the ideas from O. Casey Corr's book "Money from Thin Air" tells the lively story of an entrepreneur who changed the face of the cellular industry: Craig McCaw. He was one of the first who believed that the public would embrace mobile phones. The story begins in 1973, when the young McCaw bought a small cable television company in rural Washington. This summary explains how this communications tycoon expanded his empire and created one of the largest cable operations in the United States.
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Money from thin air by O. Casey Corr
About the Author
Summary of Money from thin air (O. Casey Corr)
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About the Author
O. CASEY CORR is a business and technology writer with the Seattle Times and a contributor to The Washington Post and the Seattle Post - Intelligencer. He is also the author of KING: The Bullitts of Seattle and Their Communications Empire.
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Part 1
Craig McCaw’s business career started with a traumatic personal event – the death of his father Elroy in August 1969. At that time, Craig McCaw was a 19-year old sophomore at Stanford University.
Elroy McCaw had been a passionate and erratic yet highly successful businessman. He built a broad business empire in the post Second World War era, in the broadcasting and real estate fields. Elroy had a fairly eccentric business approach, in which few details were ever committed to paper. Despite his unconventional management style, Elroy McCaw pulled off some highly impressive deals – including the purchase of a New York radio station for $450,000 in 1953 which he sold for more than $20 million only seven years later.
"According to family tradition, Elroy made an appearance, wholly by accident, inside the White House during a top secret briefing for President Kennedy on the Cuban missile crisis. Elroy was late for a meeting with General Curtis E. LeMay, who had been called away to an urgent meeting at the White House. LeMay’s confused secretary thought Elroy was late for the top-secret meeting, and sent him on to the darkened briefing room. After sitting through a detailed briefing, it soon became clear to the FBI, Secret Service and Pentagon security officials Elroy was in the wrong place. He was detained for several hours while everything was clarified, and was later released to a friend who he cheerfully