Always Appeal To Their Self-Interest Not Their Sympathy By Abbaly Johnson
This is a very interesting story and I really wish you would read it to the end.
Two teenagers, James and Jones who came from the same community got a chance to meet and greet Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
5 minutes with Mark, discuss whatever you care about and here is how the conversation went.
James:
Good Morning Sir.
I have been praying to meet someone like you. I believe God has planned this meeting for me to finally talk to you.
Things have been very tough for us back at home. I love computers and even programming. Its my desire to work for Facebook one day, but I cant afford school, my parents are poor and hardly have enough to eat. My siblings dropped out of school because of fees too and my mum is very sick.
I don't like to burden you, but if you can help me I will be very happy and my God will bless you mightily.
Jones:
Hey Mark.
Its really cool to see you.
Whoa. You know what I've followed every new product and tech acquisition you've made in the last 5 years.
I am a front/back end engineer, I started out with JavaScript but now I roast Python for Lunch. You know that bug problem in your system, that opened up Facebook to the "hackosphere" vortex for which you've spent of $20 million dollars to fix. I found a way around it. The patch I developed will save Facebook hundreds of millions of dollars in system error spend and market damage control lobbying.
I am only asking for $5 million for my patch if you want it.
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Mark referred James to one of their directors managing their foundation. He got about $2000 in support. That's a lot of money.
Mark gave Jones an appointment. He invited some of his smartest system integrators, code writers and software developers and engineers. They looked at the patch. Good work. Facebook bought over the product for $3.5million. That's a lifetime of money.
Note:
James appealed to Zuckerberg's sympathy.
Jones appealed to Zuckerberg's interests.
Sympathy doesn't create wealth, value does.
Just like Boyle's Law, the higher your volume the lower your pressure. Temperature in life will always stay constant. Don't blame the heat. Build the volume.
Author: Johnson Abbaly
Two teenagers, James and Jones who came from the same community got a chance to meet and greet Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
5 minutes with Mark, discuss whatever you care about and here is how the conversation went.
James:
Good Morning Sir.
I have been praying to meet someone like you. I believe God has planned this meeting for me to finally talk to you.
Things have been very tough for us back at home. I love computers and even programming. Its my desire to work for Facebook one day, but I cant afford school, my parents are poor and hardly have enough to eat. My siblings dropped out of school because of fees too and my mum is very sick.
I don't like to burden you, but if you can help me I will be very happy and my God will bless you mightily.
Jones:
Hey Mark.
Its really cool to see you.
Whoa. You know what I've followed every new product and tech acquisition you've made in the last 5 years.
I am a front/back end engineer, I started out with JavaScript but now I roast Python for Lunch. You know that bug problem in your system, that opened up Facebook to the "hackosphere" vortex for which you've spent of $20 million dollars to fix. I found a way around it. The patch I developed will save Facebook hundreds of millions of dollars in system error spend and market damage control lobbying.
I am only asking for $5 million for my patch if you want it.
********************
Mark referred James to one of their directors managing their foundation. He got about $2000 in support. That's a lot of money.
Mark gave Jones an appointment. He invited some of his smartest system integrators, code writers and software developers and engineers. They looked at the patch. Good work. Facebook bought over the product for $3.5million. That's a lifetime of money.
Note:
James appealed to Zuckerberg's sympathy.
Jones appealed to Zuckerberg's interests.
Sympathy doesn't create wealth, value does.
Just like Boyle's Law, the higher your volume the lower your pressure. Temperature in life will always stay constant. Don't blame the heat. Build the volume.
Author: Johnson Abbaly
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