Decabillion

Breathtaking megadeals make headlines almost daily, and have lost their ability to astound. Kraft, RJR Nabisco, Pillsbury — these and other takeovers and leveraged buyouts requiring deca[-]billions of dollars, would have overwhelmed the most sophisticated investment bankers of the 1970s.

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Of course, to achieve what he did, [Jeff] Vinik had to take risks—throwing decabillions of dollars into technology stocks long before that sector caught fire, for instance, and tossing out all the consumer growth stocks so beloved by [Peter] Lynch (“no growth potential,” says Vinik).

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The common currency of all such East–West discussions was money—the need for very large sums to carry out macroeconomic reform, but just as the United States and the other G-7 states had resisted Mikhail Gorbachev’s outsized requests, so too did Boris Yeltsin’s large numbers after 1991 fail to bring forth the decabillions sought.

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[Bill] Gates is worth decabillions in part because he had a few big visions, such as the basic tide of growth in PCs and the creative power of open standards, but equally important has been his embrace of the fluidity of the future and an awesome ability to react to surprises.

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