In today’s episode, THE MENTORS RADIO Host Dan Hesse talks with John Stanton, one of the creators of the wireless industry, the founder of multiple companies including T-Mobile USA, and now Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners and Chairman of Trilogy Partnerships. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Costco and Microsoft, which today is the world’s most valuable company. Learn the evolution of the wireless industry and why fans are driving changes to the most traditional of games—America’s national pastime—baseball. John is truly a wireless pioneer, co-founding three of the top 10 wireless operators in the U.S. during the last 40 years. John helped found McCaw Cellular where he was Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman, which became the largest wireless operator in the U.S. and which was sold to AT&T to become AT&T Wireless. He then founded Western Wireless, where he served as Chairman and CEO until it was acquired by Alitel, and he founded Voicestream, where he served as Chairman and CEO, selling it to Deutsche Telecom in 2001 for $50.7 billion. Deutsche Telecom renamed the company T-Mobile USA and it remains headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. John also served as Chairman of Clearwire until it was sold to Sprint in 2013. John is a member of the Wireless Hall of Fame.

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JOHN STANTON:

• BIO:
  
  • BIO: John W. Stanton
    
  
  

• BOOK:
  
  • Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution, by James B. Murray, Jr.
    
  
  

• ARTICLES:
  
  • New Mariners CEO John Stanton is baseball-loving billionaire with World Series goal, The Seattle Times
    
  • In His Own Words: John Stanton