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Meteoric rise and a amazing story of an israeli commando with anti-terrorism training in assassinations and kidnappings to a genius billionaire entrepreneur on
by drawkbox 13y ago
Meteoric rise and a amazing story of an israeli commando with anti-terrorism training in assassinations and kidnappings to a genius billionaire entrepreneur on one of the planes on 9/11 that crashed into NY. Why was he on a regular plane as a billionaire? Sad that he had such a short life as someone who could figure things out quicker than most, he lived an amazing almost movie-like life.
- lambda 13y agoBecause his "billions" were on paper, in the form of Akamai stock (and "billionaire" seems like a stretch; I don't think Akamai was worth enough for him to have been a billionaire, even on paper, at the time he died). He was the CEO of Akamai, and on a business trip at the time. This was right during the dot-com bust; Akamai was losing customers left and right, and cash was very short. You don't make a good CEO by chartering private jets for your trips while your company is busy laying off employees because business has just dropped.