What if Mc'Dubious presents Mr.CEO with a Non Disclosure Agreement before talking about his grand idea? bernard On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Catherine Ndavi <catherine.ndavi@gmail.com
wrote:
@washington..thats very true, the idea will be listened to, then and renamed by Mr. C.E.O et al... On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:35, saich <saiched@gmail.com> wrote:
Let’s draw parallels if Steve Jobs were a Kenyan. He did call the Intel CEO when he was 12 years old, explaining that he had a technical invention that he thought would be of help to the company. And the Intel CEO bought into his idea, and gave him a space and lab and equipment to bring his ideas to light. Let’s fictionalize how the conversation might have gone if he were a Kenyan.
So, let’s assume that he is Mc'Dubious here and the Intel CEO would be a CEO of a telecommunications/media company.
here is how the conversation would play out
*Mc'Dubious*: Hi, Sir, I’m Mc'Dubious. I have an amazing technology that I believe would be of help to your company.
*CEO: * And where did you develop the technology. Who helped you?
*Mc'Dubious*: No, I developed it myself, after the school classes.
*CEO:* So, you are still in school?
*Mc'Dubious:* Yes Sir.
*CEO:* Don’t you think it would have been better if you had finished school and then bring up the idea when you are through with school.
*Mc'Dubious*: No, but I already figured out the problem, so it makes no difference.
*CEO*: Listen, young man, or boy, finish school first, and then we’ll talk when you can come with the appropriate qualification and papers.
*Mc'Dubious*: But won’t you give me a chance sir, just to demonstrate it?
*CEO:* Listen, I will not enter into discussions with a kid. What do you know anyway.*hangs the phone quickly.*
*Mc'Dubious*: But, but…but….
And the dream would have died like that. And young Mc'Dubious would have been subsumed into the system, learning to adopt and stay afloat and twenty or thirty years, is a creative ghost of his former self.
I know this has happened or is bound to happen to many of you out there....
On the contrary, like has happened somewhere around, in this time and age, CEO would invite Mc'Dubious, have a discussion, get the whole idea and then what follows is Mc'Dubious would see his idea flying elsewhere under a different name!!! It's happened right here in KE several times, and several such have been discussed on this forum, lest you forget!
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