Go away, ya bother me… whoever you are
Great story from Mary Jo Foley, who blogs All About Microsoft for ZDnet and is a long-time Microsoft watcher, as told in an interview with Long Zheng on I Started Something:
One of my funniest interview moments happened during the very first time I interviewed Bill Gates. I was brand new to covering technology. I was interviewing Gates on the show floor at Comdex in Las Vegas. We were out in the open in the Microsoft booth. Up came Steve Jobs while I was interviewing Gates. Gates and Jobs started chatting. I waited and waited. Finally I said to Jobs: “Do you think you could come back another time? I’m trying to do an interview here.” Gates said to me after Jobs walked off, “Do you know who that was?” I didn’t. Gates said: “He’s the head of Apple.” Yeah, not an auspicious beginning…but my very first story on Microsoft came out really well in spite of it all.
Posted: May 30th, 2007 under Fun Stuff, Media Interview Trends, Tips for Interviewers.