Ready?
Whenever you are.
OK, so this is for the special graduation issue of the student newspaper.
Yes, I’m giving the commencement address at this year’s ceremony.
You are? I mean, um, I know, you are very young to have amassed such an empire. To what do you..?
To what do I owe my success? Seriously?
Yes.
Business is about people. And I’ve always been good with people. What motivates them, what incentivizes them, what inspires them.
Maybe you’re just lucky.
I’ve always found that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. The key to my success has been identifying talented individuals and harnessing their efforts.
So you’re a control freak?
OH, I exercise control in all things, Ms Steele.
Your company is involved primarily in the telecommunications sector. Yet you also invest in numerous agricultural projects, including several in Africa. Is that something you feel passionate about? Feeding the world’s poor?
It’s smart business. You don’t agree?
I don’t know enough about it. I just wonder if, perhaps your heart might be a bit bigger than you want to let on?
There’re some people say that I don’t have a heart, at all.
Why would they say that?
Because they know me well. Go on.