Editing Charlie Ergen (section)

==Early career==
After graduating with an M.B.A. from Wake Forest in 1976, Ergen worked as a financial analyst for [[Frito-Lay]]. He "retired" in 1978 in hopes of working for himself.<ref name=Cutthroat-84>{{cite book | last =Keating | first =Stephen  | title =Cutthroat: High Stakes & Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier  | publisher =Johnson Books | date =1999 | location =Boulder, Colorado | pages =84–85 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=2dhM7xdI89EC  | isbn = 9781555662486 }}</ref><ref name="gardner">{{cite news |last1=Gardner |first1=Eriq |title=Dish Network's Charlie Ergen Is the Most Hated Man in Hollywood |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dish-networks-charlie-ergen-is-432288 |access-date=22 September 2020 |publisher=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2 April 2013}}</ref> Afterward, he was a professional gambler, playing poker and blackjack.<ref name=Cutthroat-84/><ref name="Ramachandran15">{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/bets-are-placed-will-dishs-ergen-seal-a-deal-1433441530 |title=Dish's Finicky CEO Is Wild Card in T-Mobile Talks |last1=Ramachandran |first1=Shalini  |date=June 4, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2020 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref>