Monsters

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

We all recognize the name Bill Gates.

Yet, lost in the story of Bill Gates is how he and several of his friends using an exploit in a firm’s operating system to get free computer time. When caught and banned, Gates and his three friends who were also banned, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans, offered to find code bugs. Gates worked at the firm’s offices examining source code for the firm until they eventually closed their doors.

Steve Wozniak of Apple fame was known to build blue boxes to get around telecom firm’s switches to make long distance calls at a time when that was an expensive separately billed item on a bill.

Would your firm have interviewed either man?

Seriously, does your firm have a way of identifying and connecting with brilliant teens and make them feel at home?

We’ve all heard the story of the attempted terrorist attack on a train bound for France where two US soldiers and their friend thwarted a determined gunman from committing mass murder.

Does your firm only look at the skills military men and women arrive at your door with and ignore their heart?

I recently read a quote that I was stunned by.