Berry Gordy Jr, the president of Motown and Robinson's close friend and business partner, heard a test pressing of the new recording at one of the company's weekly product-evaluation meetings.
The bad arse, blasé, aviator-clad, double-earring wearing hunk and his beautiful partner (Heard is terrific here; her doe-eyed presence recalls the early work of French New Wave pioneer Anna Karina)?
At some point, Liang who had been on the force less than 18 months and his partner heard the commotion and discovered Gurley and Butler.
I could see it in the darting pupils and firing quads of my schmoozing partner; hear his brain clicking through its store of exit lines: freshen a drink, gotta-say-hello-to, feed the meter (what meter?)..
Your goal in this discussion is to make sure your partner hears you acknowledge your mistake.
If you want to break up with style, it is important that your partner hears it from you first.
Warren Weiss, one of Foundation Capital's clean tech partners, heard about Silver Spring, which was started in Milwaukee.
The Greylock partners hear a lot of pitches from companies with cute one-word names and bright logos (Meerkat, Sprig, Nextdoor, Vessel, Operator) that aim at "disrupting" some existing set of economic arrangements.
