The Fortune Article Hit the Table Before the Gravy Did

want a deal moving, had cost-saving numbers so optimistic I actually checked to make sure pages weren’t missing.

Then came turn number one.

Three weeks before Thanksgiving, one of Peterson’s board members called me directly.

Not my team. Me.

His name was Warren Tice. Seventy, blunt, Kansas City, had built one of the original companies in the portfolio continue reading …