As a teenager, won 3rd place at a programming competition, after the prizes ceremony went to the CEO of a sponsor company that gave a talk about "growing the ne

As a teenager, won 3rd place at a programming competition, after the prizes ceremony went to the CEO of a sponsor company that gave a talk about "growing the next generation of high tech workers" and told him "if you really want to grow the next generation, don't donate laptops as prizes, give us summer jobs". He replied "you're hired, get my secretary's phone number and give him three names". (Once you have job experience, you can get your next job easily) Note: this was the second time I tried it. The year before I did the same with the CEO of the Israeli branch of a sponsor who in the immortal words of Douglas Crockford "I won't name to protect their identity, but I can give their initials, I.B.M", and he also said "this sounds great, here's my secretary's phone number" but then I got a call from a different secretary in a different unit every few months where they tried to figure out what's this weird thing that landed on their table and who they can forward it to in order to get rid of it...