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In September, one of the richest people in America took a trip to Paris for a conference.

I would like to ask Charlie Ergen, our founder and patriarch, to join me for Q&A.

Charlie, if you don't mind joining us. Thank you.

That person I'm talking about is Charlie Ergen, who's being introduced here.

After that applause, he starts taking questions about the future of the company he founded, his satellite operator, Echo Star.

I guess I would say, it's about the fourth pivot for me personally as a company.

And every time we pivoted, it was always a little scary at first and it was always sometimes not.

This pivot Ergen's talking about here, it has to do with some eye-popping deals that his company's been involved in.

Got some big breaking news this morning from AT&T.

The company paying about $23 billion in cash for spectrum licenses from Echo Star.

Elon Musk's SpaceX said on Monday,

it will buy wireless spectrum licenses from Echo Star for its Starlink satellite network

for about $17 billion.

Echo Star shares jumping after Bloomberg reported the satellite TV company engaged in talks

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