Garrett Dunham

We had senior vice presidents at a minimum who had to back it or CEO-level support, which, as you can imagine, Amgen, I think, is a $40 billion pharmaceutical company.

Getting to their CEO was not an easy task and not one I was successful with.

The final straw was after about eight months of negotiation with a company I will not name.

They said, OK, we're going to call you in two weeks.

Your half million dollar proposal for funding and for the company is going to be in.

We're going to do this.

They call me two weeks and a day later because, of course, everything was late.

And the first things out of his mouth was not, it's in procurement.

It was, so you remember how our CTO abandoned his family to start dating an actress?

Oh gosh, this is not going to be a good call.

This has nothing to do at all with a half a million dollars.

I really do not care.

Yes, I remember.

What's up?

Well, she threw a party for a terrible movie, terrible B movie, three, got drunk, invited the CTO out to it, takes her top off.

She's running around in a bra, taking photos, posting them to Instagram.

HR catches wind.

They fire the CTO.

They fire the guy who is financially backing my proposal.

They give both of their jobs to the guy who was...