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Published · transcript-backedBrad Gerstner: belief
15 Mar 2022 Acquired Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
“Perot—people forget—dropped out of the campaign three weeks before the election. I think he's still got 17% or 19% of the vote.”
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- Speaker
- Brad Gerstner
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner)
Transcript context
…I've heard you talked about this before. Is it fair to say that you didn't want to go raise money to run a political campaign? The idea of groveling for the rest of my career for money just didn't sit well with me. Kind of a loon, but somebody I admired was the 1991 campaign of Ross Perot. He spent tens of millions of his own money to go on television in kind of a goofy way with poster boards and rail against the national debt. I thought, nobody owns this guy. Perot—people forget—dropped out of the campaign three weeks before the election. I think he's still got 17% or 19% of the vote. He was an entrepreneur himself, right? He started EDS (Electronic Data Systems)?…
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