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Teledesic
Company founded in the 1990s to build a commercial broadband satellite internet constellation in low Earth orbit. Its 1994 proposal had initial investments from Bill Gates and Craig McCaw.
Of the 1 person here linked to Teledesic, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Teledesic
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder, with Bill Gates, 1994
Source
· high confidence. Wikipedia says the two formed Teledesic in 1994 and that satellite production halted in 2002 and spectrum licences were sold in 2003; his own exit date is not 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