Top Highlights

• In January 2000, Jack Grubman was at the top of his game
• his unwavering belief that investors could make a bundle investing in a handful of new, high-tech telephone companies—was celebrated in all its glory.
• the top telecommunications analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, the prestigious investment-banking arm of the massive Citigroup financial empire,
• Grubman’s real power was not just as an analyst who recommended what stocks investors should buy. He was a deal maker,
• this dual role that made him one of the highest paid executives on Wall Street, earning as much as $25 million in 1999 alone.