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Carl Icahn: "I Fired 12 Floors of People"
Investor Talk
A short clip in which Carl Icahn tells the story of his first activist investment and of firing 12 floors of people, arguing activism need not be short term.
Used as an anecdote in layoff and cost-cutting debates: the company supposedly never noticed what the fired staff had done.
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