Draft of March 20, 2018 Word count: 8,106 Chapter 4. The China Connection In January and again in March 2000, I traveled to China to launch an education-centric business model designed to provide an exclusive Internet portal into China for education. The initial reach was 235 million schoolchildren, their families and their communities. Nokia committed $150 million with another $100…
Draft of March 20, 2018 Word count: 8,882 Chapter 5. The Poland Connection In July 2003, Russian-Jewish oligarch and mega-thief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of Yukos Oil, attended the annual telecom conference sponsored by Allen & Co. in Sun Valley, Idaho. Allen & Co. is owned largely by two brothers.[1] One brother financed Connecticut-based Westbrook Technologies, a firm that hired me…
