| Headline: Li’s revised résumé Source: Euromoney Date: May 2001 Author: Chris Cockerill
Having claimed for the past 14 years that he was a graduate of Stanford with a very solid bachelor of science degree in computer engineering, Li has admitted this is not the case. It turns out he’s nothing more than a good old-fashioned university drop-out who left the course nine months before it ended. Many people who commit this kind of faux pas are asked by the boss to vacate the building quietly, but since Li is the boss – and a very high profile one – he has had to face the wrath of the media instead. “It’s a bloody stupid thing to have done,” says one banker in Hong Kong. “But the PR machine of PCCW has always been about pride and protecting egos. So if a chink in the armour is found he is always going to get whacked.” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||