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Growing Up Perot

I’m in Plano to interview Ross Perot and Ross Perot Jr., who have won a family business award from Ernst & Young, landing them on the cover of D CEO. I tell them, though, that I don’t want to talk about their corporate success. Instead, I want to talk about their relationship—and what it’s like to grow up Perot. Here's what they had to say.
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The Perots, in Ross Sr.'s office in Plano.
The Perots, in Ross Sr.’s office in Plano.

I’m sitting between Ross Perot Jr. and Ross Perot Sr. at a large, round conference room table at Dell’s corporate office in Plano, which also houses The Perot Group. We’re talking family vacations. Ross Sr. is telling me about a trip they took when his son was about 14.

“We were going around the world, and I realized one of my friends from the Naval Academy was the captain of a nuclear submarine off the coast of Scotland,” Ross Sr. says. “I called him and asked him if, by chance, we could take Ross out on the submarine.”

“It was just like the movies,” Ross Jr. says. “We get on a tugboat and head out to sea. There was this dense fog, then out of the fog rises this submarine. We went down below for about 24 hours, and we were literally being chased. It was at the height of the Cold War, and we were trying to throw off the Russians. For a kid, it was an amazing experience.”

Read the full D Magazine story here. Read D CEO’s feature on the Perots’ family business award here.

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