I have two distinct experiences giving a presentation to "executives". One was a CEO who is very widely known, and has a lot of respect. The other just got pr

I have two distinct experiences giving a presentation to "executives". One was a CEO who is very widely known, and has a lot of respect. The other just got promoted after the person above him got axed. When I presented to the first guy, everyone else in the room was half listening, on their laptops "multi-tasking". He was giving me 100% of his focus. When the demo was over he shot me several really insightful questions. No one else had any substantive comments. The second he spent the whole meeting writing an email on his phone. When the demo was over, he said "great work, keep it up", got up, and excused himself. One of these guy is a multi-millionaire, the other is unemployed.