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MarketWatch: With a career spanning 500 M&A deals and decades in business, you’ve obviously learned from experience.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Samsung is South Korea's biggest chaebol, or family-owned business, with operations spanning electronics, heavy industry, construction and financial services.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Amazon over nearly three decades has assembled a supply chain spanning the globe with warehouses, planes, trucks and delivery vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

They agreed to advance their high-level strategic partnership to a "new phase of development", Hung said, and inked six agreements spanning technology, climate preparedness and information and communication.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

Their internment starting in 1942 and spanning the war represented one of the darkest periods in American history.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler