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On the recordJune 23, 1998
The company I used to work for, it was always the fifth year of our annual plan, we would be a billion-dollar company. They finally reached it a couple of years after I left there. But a billion-dollar company makes the Fortune 500 list. There are probably about 270, 280 on the Fortune 500 list. A billion-dollar company employs, at least in the industry that I was in, employs somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 to 6, 7,000 people, not counting the people who distributed the products, not counting the people who supplied to our company. A billion dollars is a big number.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the significance of billion-dollar companies and their impact on employment.

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