Wilbur Ross Thinks Bigger

摘要

IF YOU HAVE ever been to a yard sale, spied a dusty artifact with a " 1 dollas or best offer" tag on it, recognized its value, plunked down a buck, and lien sold it on eBay for 100 times that, you have a small idea of what if s like to be Wilbur Ross. The 68-year-old billionaire bottom-fisher on July 23 agreed to sell his private-equity vehicle, WL Ross & Co., to Amvescap for some 375 million. Shortly after the deal-the first significant combination of a conventional money manager with a private-equity investor-was announced, I talked with Ross.