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American CEOs Should Stop Complaining About Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

In 1998, Mo was running a highly profitable and stable engineering firm serving European mobile operators. He sold that company to do what no European operator would (though he begged them): Start an African cell phone company. Mo Ibrahim, founding CEO of Celtel. Mo sold Celtel 10 years later for $3.4