James Patterson

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661 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Jun

James Patterson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And then there were eight questions.

One of them was, here are the ingredients on a can of beans, vinegar, water, whatever, salt.

Make them sound delicious.

One of them was, sell a telephone service to Trappist Monks.

What I was looking for were, one, people who could write, but more important, people who could solve problems.

I only ran it once, one time.

I wound up hiring almost 50 copywriters over the next three or four years just with that test.

You could immediately tell whether somebody could write and whether they could solve problems.

So that was a disruption.

You mentioned on the Jersey Turnpike, I was the CEO of Thompson North America when I was 37 or 38.

But I always, writing novels is what I love to do.

And I was writing novels at that point.

And it was a Sunday.

It was a beautiful day.

I was down in the Jersey Shore.

And I had to go into New York to work at Thompson on Sunday.

And I'm driving in.

And the traffic in that direction was, it was like going at 10 miles an hour.

It was just unbelievable.

On the other side of the pike, about every 10 seconds, a car went past.

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