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Howard Jonas has been an entrepreneur since the age of 14, when he staked out a corner near a local hospital for his hot dog stand. From selling hot dogs, he moved on to travel brochure distribution, business-to-business directories and mail-order bonsai trees. By the time he was in college, he was running one of the country's largest direct mail businesses from his dormitory room Jonas graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University. In 1979, he founded Jonas Publishing Corporation. In addition to this company, Jonas founded IDT Corporation in August 1990 and has served as Chairman since its inception. At age thirty-three, he shook the foundations of international telecommunications by positioning IDT to supply the world with extremely low international long-distance rates through the use of "callback" telephone service. At present, IDT is a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange with more than 4,000 employees and a market capitalization in excess of $2 billion. Jonas actively supports several charities nationally and in his community, and serves as a trustee on numerous university, hospital, Jewish and social service organization boards. He lives in New York City with his wife and nine childrenJonas, Howard is the author of 'I'm not the BOSS, I Just Work Here Insights and Lessons from the Founder of America's #1 Telecom Company' with ISBN 9781932443059 and ISBN 1932443053.
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