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...made it a point of trying to be involved in companies or businesses that were either start-up or that had really fallen on tough times," he says. "When a company is down on luck it's much more open to change. There's so much to do, and I can help find the focus of the organization...
After his work at NBC, Sagansky ventured into the movie business. From 1985 to 1989, he was president of production for TriStar Pictures, a start-up at the time rather than the media behemoth it is today. During his time there, the movie house produced films like "Glory," "Look Who's Talking," and "Steel Magnolias...
...Pictures, helping the company gross more money in one year--$1.3 billion--than any other movie house in history. But just as he had done while at CBS, Sagansky left Sony while at the pinnacle of his success, choosing instead to take on the challenges that come with a start-up television network...
Frey will use the $5,000 awarded as part of the prize as a start-up fund while she teaches next year in an urban Baltimore elementary school. She will attend Yale Medical School the following year...
...however, left some tracks--primarily on Tonga, a Pacific island kingdom where Gullichsen washed ashore a few years back after wandering the globe on profits from the sale of his first two companies: the virtual-reality venture Sense8 and the "virtual TV" start-up Warp. Tonga is a tiny place (pop. 100,000), and Gullichsen soon made a powerful friend, the island's Crown Prince Tupouto'a, who appointed him technology adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense, responsible for everything from Tonga's air-surveillance network to its e-mail system...