Everything will be sealed and fine
Our consultancy work involved finding a promising company(a SME) some funding from the right kind of investor. We were to value the company and negotiate and close the deal.
I had managed to convince a potential investor to fly down from Hyderabad to meet my clients. Spend the morning and a good part of afternoon with the investor at the Barista at Leela.
In our 4 to 5 hours discussion the potential investor made one long trip to the rest room.
After realising that negotiations were going in circles with an inreasing rpm we decided that we would take a trip to my client's factory.
My client was eagerly awaiting the arrival of their potential investor. They had their best smiles and were eager to impress. The investor came into the factory and promptly asked for the rest room.
So my client and I waited for him to return from his trip to the rest room. The air was tense(atleast for me, the investor I had brought to the factory had rushed to the rest room like a first standard school kid . What would my client be thinking" ). The silence kind of amplified it. I decided to break it and blurted out, "I think his stomach is kind of upset. Must be the plane food" [this was pure conjecture from my side]
So my client said, "Pop a somethng_ol and everything will be sealed and fine".
I smiled. My client added,"Really man, it works all the time. I always carry it while traveling"
By this time the investor had returned from the restroom to the area where we were waiting. Now to break the ice with the potential investor my client said," If you need any medicines, do let me know, I always carry it". I was chuckling wildly within as I saw the investor fight off his bemusement and say," No thanks".
I still chuckle thinking about what might have gone though the investors mind.
Probable Investor Thought Bubble: [I meet a guy for the first time in my life with a view to investing in his company and he asks me if I need medcines. !!!!!!!]
I had managed to convince a potential investor to fly down from Hyderabad to meet my clients. Spend the morning and a good part of afternoon with the investor at the Barista at Leela.
In our 4 to 5 hours discussion the potential investor made one long trip to the rest room.
After realising that negotiations were going in circles with an inreasing rpm we decided that we would take a trip to my client's factory.
My client was eagerly awaiting the arrival of their potential investor. They had their best smiles and were eager to impress. The investor came into the factory and promptly asked for the rest room.
So my client and I waited for him to return from his trip to the rest room. The air was tense(atleast for me, the investor I had brought to the factory had rushed to the rest room like a first standard school kid . What would my client be thinking" ). The silence kind of amplified it. I decided to break it and blurted out, "I think his stomach is kind of upset. Must be the plane food" [this was pure conjecture from my side]
So my client said, "Pop a somethng_ol and everything will be sealed and fine".
I smiled. My client added,"Really man, it works all the time. I always carry it while traveling"
By this time the investor had returned from the restroom to the area where we were waiting. Now to break the ice with the potential investor my client said," If you need any medicines, do let me know, I always carry it". I was chuckling wildly within as I saw the investor fight off his bemusement and say," No thanks".
I still chuckle thinking about what might have gone though the investors mind.
Probable Investor Thought Bubble: [I meet a guy for the first time in my life with a view to investing in his company and he asks me if I need medcines. !!!!!!!]

6 Comments:
You guys have started i-banking!
:) all the more better if your client is in the pharmaceutical industry !
Investor finding? Are you guys still in consulting?
and what happened to the deal ? :D
Its still on thankfully.
Was the client by any chance specializing in Medicines to arrest frequent Rest Room visit??
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