Company · Telecommunications · founded 1987
Nextel
American wireless service operator, founded as FleetCall and renamed Nextel Communications in 1993. Craig McCaw became a significant investor in 1995. It later merged into Sprint.
Of the 1 person here linked to Nextel, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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Investor Past
Role
Significant investor; gained effective control by April 1995, 1995
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says he and his brothers contributed about $1.1 billion over time. The Nextel page also says he became a significant investor in 1995. No exit date is stated.
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Craig McCaw
Built McCaw Cellular into the largest U.S. cellular carrier and sold it to AT&T in 1994; later backed Nextel, Nextlink, Teledesic and Clearwire
comfortable until 1969, then insolvent estate · some · some college