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Joe Molotov

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Ross (i) Perot
« on: July 09, 2019, 10:41:52 AM »
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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2019, 10:49:40 AM »
I'd still vote for him over some of these other candidates, amirite guys? :rodney

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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2019, 11:50:19 AM »
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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2019, 01:24:25 PM »
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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2019, 06:26:44 PM »
the quick reports I've heard/seen for this all mention his Presidential runs and then mention that he was a billionaire, but Ross Perot did way cooler things and how he became a billionaire was pretty cool too imo

sold his first company to GM, sold his last company to Dell, like thirty years apart, both for over two billion dollars, he owned an original copy of the Magna Carta, personally kept Steve Jobs afloat inbetween Apple stints, personally kept the POW/MIA conspiracy theory government coverup opposition in business (which is what got him into politics), bankrolled projects that became the creation of e-books because he thought it'd be cool to read a book on a computer someday, pretty much bought the Dallas Mavericks for his son who ran it so badly they had to sell it to Mark Cuban, plus his whole presidential thing was borderline done on a dare from Larry King

his son also flew around the world in a helicopter in his early twenties, that was less dangerous than his Dallas Mavericks ownership

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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2019, 07:03:03 PM »
One thing that does perk interest.

How the fuck did he become a billionaire?

1. From 1947 to 1949, he attended Texarkana Junior College, then entered the United States Naval Academy in 1949. Sold his first company to GM, sold his last company to Dell, like thirty years apart, both for over two billion dollars.

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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2019, 07:19:44 PM »
He was an early IBM computer salesman, the company he made (EDS) was based around how inefficient the IBM customers he was selling to were doing everything with computers. It was one of the first actual IT companies in the world. EDS is sometimes credited as inventing the outsourcing model.

Perot Systems was basically the same idea updated for the 1990s.

I don't think Perot personally was really anything more than an owner and an idea in either company. I've read that he was a quite smart manager in terms of identifying good employees and avoiding getting into huge costs.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Systems
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Leading the effort internally was Morton H. Meyerson, who joined the company in 1966 as the company's 54th employee. In 1967, he proposed the business model that eventually became known as "outsourcing"[3] and which led to exponential growth for EDS.

In the 1970s, EDS expanded initially into more insurance services and later credit unions, and by 1975 revenue topped $100 million and the company began bidding for work internationally. In 1978 EDS expanded into financial markets with the arrival of automated teller machines, electronic funds transfers and real-time point-of-sale terminals. Meyerson was named president in 1979, at which point EDS had revenue of $270 million, was free of debt, and had 8,000 employees.

In the 1980s, they expanded into travel services supporting payment services between travel agents and airlines represented by the Air Transport Association of America and provided large scale contracts for the US military.

In 1984, the company was acquired by General Motors for $2.5 billion, with EDS becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of GM. Meyerson remained president and in 1985, the company had a presence in 21 countries with 40,000 employees.
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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2019, 07:21:44 PM »
I think I’ve said it here before, but worth mentioning again: Van Cruncheon voted for him... twice! And I mean in like 2008 and 2012.
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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2019, 09:45:42 PM »
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Perot also accused Bush of cozying up to President Hafez Assad of Syria, whom he said bore responsibility for the Beirut embassy bombing in 1983 and the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, which killed 270 people. But U.S. intelligence agencies have never been able to prove a direct link between Damascus and these terrorist acts.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-11-02-mn-1152-story,amp.html

The Assad curse claims another one. When will they learn? :-\

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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2019, 12:04:28 AM »
Of course benji loves him



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Re: Ross (i) Perot
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2019, 12:28:20 AM »
hardly, he's no John McAfee :snob