Dom Harvey

Did you take it as a sign?

I mean, you came here from Queenstown.

You're squeezing into our podcast.

You just have to, I suppose, reassess your own personal limits.

True, true.

I worry about you, Dame T. You're doing a lot.

No, no, I haven't.

Hey, so in your final year of telecom, you were part of the team that sold Yellow Pages for like $2.2 billion.

Yes, high point.

Crazy amount of money back, crazy amount of money now, but crazy amount of money back then.

And you, yeah, what was the thinking behind that?

I remember a time for a couple of years where they'd do the drop-off deliveries in plastic bags with a knot on the top and they'd sit on people's letterboxes for weeks.

When you do a deal of that magnitude, do you feel bad, like you know you're selling a lemon, or is it not a lemon at that point?

Yeah, that's true.

Well, congratulations on that.

That's awesome.

When the deal like that gets signed, what do you do?

It would have been practically worthless.

A job like that, the telecom CEO, comes with a massive amount of public scrutiny.

When you're under intense scrutiny, like when you're on the news every night or you're on the paper in the morning, what did you learn about yourself?