Jack Lawrence

So they could have been trying to get them to recruit me on their behalf or something.

I know how crazy this sounds, but why would they try to extradite me three times?

Why do they want me in custody?

The recruitment attempts, basically the, I don't remember which order they came in, but the one in Pakistan I remember was in 2007.

So that trip I was in Islamabad and it was really cool because when I would travel and I was also like a government liaison, they would send me in to talk to governments and tell them about the new Microsoft technology and talk to their tech people and get their tech people to get excited.

But I also talked to the high level people.

And I didn't make the final decisions.

I was just basically there to, you know, to evangelize the technology and talk to technical people.

And so I would often fly into these countries and be like, I'd literally get a phone call.

They're like, can you go to Saudi Arabia next week or tomorrow?

The government wants to meet you.

And this was one that I got in a call.

And they're literally like, hey, can you be on a plane in like a day or two and go to Islamabad?

And so I got this reputation.

I started my job, got bigger and bigger because I was willing to go to places that nobody else is going because I like culture.

I like people.

I want to see it.

So I remember I was meeting with the central bank.

And there were some members of cabinet there as well.

Towards the end of the trip, one of the guys that had been kind of hanging around and really never identified himself because everybody else is like, yeah, I'm this person.