Hey, it had worked for him in the past! When he was 12 and needed parts to build a frequency counter, he looked up Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett–Packard) in the pho

Hey, it had worked for him in the past! When he was 12 and needed parts to build a frequency counter, he looked up Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett–Packard) in the phone book, called him at home, and talked him into getting the parts for free. Plus he got a summer internship at HP out of it.