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Is this a good time to talk?" Brian Roberts asks. The CEO of Comcast, the largest cable company in the U.S., is on the phone for a quick interview before jetting off to meet with investors and pitch his latest gambit: a $66 billion hostile takeover of the Walt Disney...
He had just asked that very question, after a fashion, of Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "I asked Michael, did he see a scenario where we can do this together?" Roberts recalls of their phone conversation. He won't characterize the rest of their chat, although you don't have to...
Roberts, 44, keeps his ego in check and his checkbook handy. The trim, bespectacled executive is renowned as a shrewd bargain hunter and corporate strategist. "He's one of the most likable people, but whoever sits on the other side of the bargaining table should have a healthy dose of...
That was certainly evident 15 months ago when Roberts bought AT&T's cable assets for $51 billion and promptly turned them from an albatross into a moneymaker. He recaptured or replaced subscribers lost under AT&T management in 2002, boosted operating cash flow and upgraded the systems to make...
Friendster, too, asked the same sorts of deep and meaningful questions designed to provide a glimpse of the user’s true personality. And just as the photos probably more often than not stretched the truth, answers to said probing questions turned out to be depressingly uniform, following an...