Charles Ergen

{ "bio": [ "Charlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite and internet service company EchoStar.", "Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980.", "In 1995, EchoStar went public and also launched its first satellite, birthing pay TV subsidiary Dish Network.", "Ergen spun off Dish into a separate company in 2008 and remerged the businesses in December 2023, again under the EchoStar name.", "Today, the company has more than 7 million pay TV subscribers." ], "about": [ "Ergen is the son of an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.", "Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp." ] }