Would he have personally have known really well a guy like Bernie Ebbers at WorldCom at that point?
Well, everybody that was an analyst knew Bernie Ebbers. I don’t know about Jack’s relationship with Bernie Ebbers. But certainly on the face of it, in all the public meetings and on the conference calls, Jack was always the first to ask questions. The management, including Bernie Ebbers, would point him out in a crowd, and would always bring questions up. If we were in a crowd at an analysts’ meeting with a 1,000 or 2,000 people, Jack would be the first on the podium to be able to ask a question. He was clearly a favorite analyst. … At that point, how do you size up a guy like Bernie Ebbers? Did Bernie Ebbers know telecom? Is he a thinker? Is he a strategist? Is he a technical kind of guy? Bernie Ebbers, in my opinion, was not technical, did not know the industry, and was just a very aggressive player that happened to be in this business. … His primary strategy was to take over companies and cut costs. He thought he could reduce costs enough that the merger would make a lot of sens
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