Shaw not only wants to succeed, he wants to redesign the financial world from the ground up. Not just made slightly more efficient, but where the whole industry is going to be turned on its head. In my first telephone conversation with the notoriously secretive Shaw, he sounds more friendly than sinister. He apologizes for having a tight schedule. The night before, he met with Clinton, for whom he has promised a report on computers in the schools.
Deadlines are deadlines.
Then I casually suggest that if we can't meet before then, perhaps he should take me with him on vacation. To my surprise, Shaw jumps at the opportunity. Thomas A. Bass , author of Vietnamerica and The Eudaemonic Pie, is writing a new book on the world financial markets. Inc. All rights reserved.