i had a great partner, john malone at tci. built western markets communications which became westmark and then was ultimately sold. after that, i had another great partner in goldman sachs in forming marcus cable and grew that to serve 1,250,000 subscribers. we sold that in 1998. it was a bittersweet day for me because i loved that company and i loved being an operator. and i was gone, the company was gone. but i joined the private equity company a few years later as the partner in charge of media. and we made cable investments, so i was back in the industry, this time as a cable investor. although i retired from that company at the end of 2018, i continue to be actually chairman of the board of wide open west, so i remain in the cable business and it's been an incredible ride. what an honor to be a part of an industry and to help an industry grow that has really changed the face of america. so thank you very much for this honor. i am moved by this. it's such an honor to be a part of this and to be among the many men and women

he was on the tci board of directors for a number of years. it was a brotherhood. >> i think it's almost immeasurable in terms of the impact he had on me and our industry. i think there are a lot of people in the industry who don't know the impact he's had. yet they benefit from the trail blazing he did. >> i can't swear that he's the first philanthropist to donate a billion of his wealth, but i know he did it. when it got tough, because after the aol deal, the time warner stock collapsed. any human being would have called up the u.n. and said, about that billion dollar commitment -- he didn't. he honored it. this is a guy of incredible integrity. >> one of my fondest memoies of ted is when he was chairman of the booed and he agreed to host this retreat on his ranch in montana. it was a marvelous two days of being in the west with ted where he could name every plant, the fish, the animals. it enabled me to understand his willingness to be a pioneer, to explore new territory. >> the next time we spent a lot of time with ted was the good will ga

so municipal court activity with tci later on, gravy. first, for felicia to put your left, you'll not only would expect to get them and save you a much better. i live that money that in business will not be less. it was on this incident base. isn't it? it doesn't give us a bonus for still spit on it. seeing that, who's this this, this the c c hours? he asked almost for ya. so yeah, of course one telling me he could pop up to the media to protect journalists. because when i, when i, when the hacker acidic, i like the fence, i know that al deli without explanation, you know that and focusing me a 2 car. so even to cut them in the discipline, you own l. e, a feeder, this is the algebra. feel welcome to fulfill cubicle komatsu to class for that unless you don't get the anger. emily as an o t she has clinical benefited. are let ellis uncle michelle look else at and thought you end up with santa de la, and i guess, okay, i see them will be us and latisha vienna. they will be in a federal, out a kiss or kisse. i will sound okay. okay. i'll put

when tci didn't have any money but had ambition to be an acquirer, and we were looking for transactionsbe done with creative financing, let's call it. jeffrey and i would travel around, occasionally meeting with potential sellers. to see him in those days, he was a very handsome guy, great personality and could get the door open. i remember a trip to a company called acton cable owned by a fellow by the name of sam phillips. we went up there to sweet-talk him. his primary business was chicken eggs. the reason why mr. phillips had to sell his cable system was that he had run out of money to feed his chickens. we with have a good deal of humor around these efforts to solve a problem for somebody feeding their chickens. at some point we did a number of those kind of meetings together, even flying to honolulu together in an effort to see if we could acquire the oceanic cable system that served most of hawaii. through those years jeff was basically part of the family. when we were at the lowest of the lows in '75 and '76, jeffrey was there trying to figure out how deals that made economic se