Craig McCaw

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"Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with."
1980-1983 In addition to entering the lottery himself, McCaw approached many other lottery winners and bought their cellular rights, which were already considered to be undervalued.
1986 After acquiring MCI's cellular wing in 1986, the McCaw brothers sold the cable company to Cooke Cablevision (now part of Comcast).
1987-2004 McCaw Cellular Communications (AT&T Wireless Services)
1987-2005 Nextel Communications (NASDAQ: NXTL)
1994 McCaw and Bill Gates teamed up to form Teledesic, with an ambitious plan to form a broadband satellite communications system with nearly 300 low earth orbit satellites.
1994 The McCaw brothers sold McCaw Cellular to AT&T Corporation for $11.5 billion. The company was renamed AT&T Wireless.
1994-2002? Teledesic
1996 McCaw bought a house in Hunts Point, Washington from Kenny G.
1998-2013 Clearwire
1999 McCaw formed Nextel Partners, Inc. which was later acquired by Sprint Nextel, Inc., for $6.5 billion in 2006, following a $36 billion merger between Nextel and the Sprint Corporation in 2005.
Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation
Free Willy Foundation
NEXTLINK Communications
US Sen/Gov Mitt Romney