“I am a visionary entrepreneur above all, in the field of mobile telecommunications and wireless. I was born next to Seattle, Washington. I have three brothers, and the four of us were working in my father’s business selling cables when I decided to sell the cable business on the day I dropped out of Stanford (back in 1981) to focus on remote technologies. Using the cash from the divestment that happened a little later, I borrowed a lot of money and purchased American Telecom Regulation authorities radio communication licences.

Soon after, I had made my company the largest mobile phone operator in the US. I sold to AT&T in 1994, which mobile division became the well-known Cingular.

I could join AT&T’s boardroom, but I hate people taking themselves too seriously and long meetings above all.

Instead of taking my big money for granted, I started all over again. My company is a third-generation wireless broadband Internet provider player operating in the 50 biggest cities in the US, Belgium, and Ireland. Again, I took a big risk, since I chose to carry lots of debt. But this is the price of fast market recognition. I hit the “Face Value” column of the British newspaper The Economist about two months ago.

Who am I?”

Update 5:43pm – Congratulations to Vincent van Wylick who recognized Craig McCaw behind this short bio. I’ll post some more details about Craig McCaw tomorrow.

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