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Even people who are rich through inherited wealth need something to wile away the days.
She didn't inherit her money. She's married into the Rothschild family and was worth $100M before the marriage due to her business acumen.
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After meeting telecommunications billionaire John Kluge while doing legal work for him as a law firm associate, she became Executive Vice President for Development at Metromedia Inc from 1984-1989. From 1989 to 2002, Lynn Forester de Rothschild owned and operated various telecommunication companies worldwide that revolutionized the broadband and wireless industries. From 1989 to 1995, Lady de Rothschild was the majority shareholder, Chairman and CEO, of TPI Communications International, Inc., one of the largest providers of paging, wireless data and cellular telephone service in Latin America, owned with Motorola. While under her management, TPI tripled its size and per-customer revenues, and cash flow grew to three times the U.S. average. In addition, she expanded operations from Puerto Rico into Latin America. TPI was sold in a private transaction for an undisclosed sum in the mid-90s.
In 1995, Lady de Rothschild pioneered the broadband wireless industry when she founded FirstMark Communications Inc, in the United States. In 1997, she sold her US interests in order to focus on international opportunities. In 1998, she founded FirstMark Communications of Europe, with the mission of building a pan-European broadband Internet company. Having secured licenses in Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Finland and built a 20,000 klm fiber network in 15 countries, she sold the company in June 2000, in the largest private equity placement in the history of the European competitive telecommunications sector.Boasted on its Board of Directors Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft, Washington D.C. power broker Vernon Jordan and Henry Kissinger. The company was sold in June 2000 in a $1 billion financing, the largest private equity placement in the history of the European competitive telecommunications sector. In discussing her personal business success between 1989 and 2000, Forester has said: "I think a lot of it is that I was lucky...most of all I learned that it's better to be lucky than to be smart."
From 1989 to 1995, Lady de Rothschild was the majority shareholder, Chairman and CEO, of TPI Communications International
In other words, she wasn't involved in the running of the company.
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