This doesn't look very much like communication with a "business guy" to me. Successful "business guys" tend to waste little time and get straight to the point,

This doesn't look very much like communication with a "business guy" to me. Successful "business guys" tend to waste little time and get straight to the point, just like (good, non-autistic) programmers. Perhaps he was thinking of marketing/sales people, who tend to believe that they can somehow cheat or force their way into a better position to sell something by withholding information or by being obnoxious and insisting. They are often not very good "business people" ...