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Article: Fishman: Wariness from the gut
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1994
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When Richard P. Fishman left his high-flying Washington job to
become president of Thinking Machines Corp., his wife and children
did not make the move to Cambridge.
Something in Fishman's gut made him wary of the $90 million
computer company. As senior partner of one of the nation's most
prestigious law firms, he rarely worked with a company with less than
$5 billion in annual sales.
Still, Fishman made the move. "I probably was having something of
a midlife crisis. I was at the top of my profession, making a lot of
money -- and it was kind of boring."
Now, the midlife crisis seems more palatable than the cash crisis
that awaited him.
Only when he arrived, Fishman said yesterday, did he ...