Is the world the planet earth inhabited by humans?
Was the business deal in the 21st century?
20th Century?
19th Century?
Earlier?
After the business deal would thousands of people recognize Kendall by face or name?
Millions of people?
YES
Yes, which makes it totally Googleable. Please don’t!
- 1989-90 is the time-frame, which makes it even MORE googleable. No cheating!
- NO, I don’t think thousands or millions recognized him by face or name. Thousands maybe, but not millions.
Did Kendall briefly corner or appear to corner the market of a particular asset or resource?
Most powerful man in the world means within his industry? As in “Henry Ford was the most powerful man in the auto industry”?
Was the business deal a merger?
YES, I think that is part of the situation.
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Did the assets involve
Energy?
Media?
Technology?
Finance?
Manufacturing?
Is this something to do with the South Sea Bubble? Tulipmania? Some similar economic scandal?
Did this involve collecting promotional items?
Did Kendall achieve this power accidentally or inadvertently? Fraudulently?
Did the lasting impact have to do with preventing any future Kendall’s from happening?
Did he develop software that happened to take off?
Does the word “sweet” have additional meaning in the riddle?
Is it something to do with the early World Wide Web?
Did he have control over assigning ranges of IP addresses?
Did he control all the Domain Name Servers?
Something similar to that?
NO - though perhaps energy…
NO
NO
It was not accidental. Inadvertent? I’d say “yes”.
NO
YES
NO to all of those Q’s
So Kendall bought something that at some point later became highly profitable?
Sweet as in candy? Sugar? The actual name of something? As a homonym for “suite” ?
NO, not really.
Sweet as in sugary and sweet-tasting.
Not the actual name of something.
Not “suite”.
Was advertising involved?
Was the deal a:
-Transaction?
-Partnership?
-Investment?
Not as part of the sweet deal, but eventually yes. But the simple answer for this puzzle is “NO”.
I’d call it a transaction.
Is there a specific sweet item that might enlighten if we identify it?
Is there a reason for the the “sixth” most powerful person as opposed to the say, eighth or third most powerful?
Would it help to identify the other five who were more powerful?
Were the people who said Kendall was the sixth most powerful person being serious?
Were the people saying this qualified to make up that statement? Experts?
Is it power as in influence? Physical strength? Military control? Monetary control?