Rank #1495
Craig McCaw
Net worth $2.8B
Telecom · United States
- Born
- Aug 11, 1949
- Age
- 76
- Source
- Telecom
- Residence
- Hunts Point, Washington
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Wireless pioneer Craig McCaw and his brothers took over their dad's cable-TV business in 1966.
- They sold McCaw Cellular to AT&T in 1994 for $12.6 billion in stock.
- McCaw, with backing from Bill Gates and Boeing, cofounded Teledesic in 1990 to provide internet access via satellite. It ceased operations in 2002.
- He has stayed out of the limelight since stepping down as chairman of telecom operator Clearwire in 2010, two years before it was acquired by Sprint.
- McCaw owns private James Island off the coast of Vancouver.
Financial assets
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