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Bernie Ebbers & WorldCom - When The Tide Goes Out…

Bernie Ebbers & WorldCom - When The Tide Goes Out…

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The whole WorldCom scandal never really registered with me-
because it happened straight after the dotcom bubble burst, so
myself and my cofounders were just dusting ourselves off and
slowly realising that we weren’t going to suddenly become
business tycoons and on top of that whole Enron scandal had
exploded just a bit before so that was the story that
consumed me back then - so when WorldCom went bust, I didn’t
really give it a lot of time, but I knew in the back of my mind
that there was great story here- Bernie Ebbers, this 6 foot 4,
honest to goodness church-going cowboy who kind of came
from nowhere to all of a sudden building one of the biggest
telecom companies in the USA, until suddenly it all collapsed
becoming the biggest bankruptcy in US history, far surpassing
Enron and and I’m glad that I finally got round to digging into
thai story because it really is a cracking one- enjoy