From the Day After Our First Dinner, Always Together

My partnership with our Senior Managing Director began with a single dinner. Introduced by a friend, we ate together — and started working together the next day. No résumé, no interview, no trial period. For over ten years since, we have worked side by side morning to night, apart only during the pandemic. Reckless?

That dinner was enough. Character shows not in a CV but in how a man eats and how he tells the story of his failures. Hiring in this world begins from doubt — screening, testing, monitoring. We do the reverse: trust by instinct, delegate from day one. A person who is trusted works so as not to betray the one who trusted him.

Ten years are my proof. Trust is not a risk; it is the fastest investment.

What do you work for?