| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : DECEMBER 13, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS
A New Net Tycoon Mark Schneider AGE 44 EDUCATION University of Denver EARLY CAREER A Washington lawyer, worked with his dad in U.S. cable-TV ventures KEY MOVE Founded United Pan-Europe Communications in Amsterdam in 1995 and made a series of acquisitions to create Europe's largest cross-border cable-TV company GOALS Use the cable network to sell phone, TV, and Internet access MISSING PIECE Germany, where he would like to acquire a big chunk of Deutsche Telekom's cable business DATA: BUSINESS WEEK _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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