Time Warner deal is peak of ambitious climb for AT&T chief
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RANDALL Stephenson, the chief executive of AT&T, could easily be pigeonholed as just another empire-building executive with a white-bread résumé. He is a 56-year-old Republican from Oklahoma atop a 140-year-old company, whose extracurricular highlights include serving as president of the Boy Scouts of America and shaping professional golf as a policy board member for the PGA Tour.
But Mr Stephenson is staking out risky business propositions - and not only his US$85.4 billion offer to buy Time Warner, a megadeal that would create the world's largest media company, with enormous operations in both content and distribution.
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