Those conversations subsequently led to Microsoft's taking a small stake in Facebook, from which it stands to profit handsomely after the company goes public.
He'd never been a fiction man; it took him six months to get through my first novel and we had many conversations subsequently that started, "You know, that's not really how it happened …" My father liked things to be beautiful all the time, which is why he was often a pain in the neck.
The scenes where they goof off and smoke pot, discuss relationships, periods, and the loneliness of 24/7 digital connectivity are all pulled from real conversations subsequently workshopped with Crystal and the girls over a period of months.
These conversations subsequently translated into actual knowledge improvement, which suggests that actively leveraging social networks to directly spread campaign messages might be a good strategy for CHI promotion.
If you had to identify the zenith of Spin's influence and reputation, it would probably fall around the time in the late 80s when it brought together LL Cool J and Kim Gordon for the uncomfortable conversation that subsequently inspired Sonic Youth's Kool Thing.
I can think of several instances where going to a work happy hour or event led to a conversation and subsequently, a friendly relationship with an influencer or senior leader in my company.
Not coincidentally, it is also four years since his wife and daughter left him, alienated by his obsessive recording of all their conversations - subsequently sampled and synthesised, becoming the bases of his compositions.
To listen in to those conversations, and subsequently to see fragments of them pop up in an enormous grid of numbers, is a bit like witnessing people being fed into a giant Hadron Collider: lives churned and turned into statistics, a great big crunching and mashing (to use a favourite word of data analysts), a sort of digital dismemberment.
While free agency was a "go nowhere conversation" as one (subsequently fined) owner put it during the negotiations, there was a degree of protection for the owners in its absence.
We meet Jonathan, who is in his 20's and the son of a businessman we have previously encountered, when he bursts into a bar and frantically engages a strange woman in conversation because, we subsequently find out, a fortuneteller has predicted he will meet his soul mate by midnight.
