Last week I met an impressive serial entrepreneur with more partnership notches in his belt than I could count.
At a gallery opening in Jacmel I met an artist who'd spent the '60s tending bar at jazz clubs in New York.
WSJ: Ben Fountain on Haiti After the Earthquake | Traveler's Tale
This winter, I met an unemployed young man who was skimming money off a welfare program that guarantees rural employment to the indigent.
In a hospital in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, I met an Afghan woman, Fatima, who had taken opium while suffering from bleeding after childbirth, because it was cheaper than going to a doctor.
Saturday, I met with an executive of a Silicon Valley-based start-up, SoFi.
Like the 60-something couple I met on an overnight train to Birobidzhan in the Russian Far East, who insisted on readying my bed, giving me whole tomatoes from their garden to eat like apples, and then having "just a bit" of their vodka, amazingly still in a frosted bottle.
For example, I recently met with an executive who lives in Phoenix, but whose company is headquartered in Washington DC.
When I met Swinton at an art gallery opening not long after the film was released (I interviewed her boyfriend, the painter Sandro Kopp), I wanted to hug her (though I didn't dare -- her white suit was too awesome to crush).
When I first met him, through an old friend in Los Angeles, I took him for a brilliant poser.
We met when I played an amateur show at the age of 9 and had delusions of grandeur.
WSJ: He's Kept Growing | Charles Lloyd | Cultural Conversation by Stuart Isacoff
I've never met an Indian woman rich or poor, upper or lower caste, pretty or homely, young or middle-age who hasn't been harassed.
Now I met over the weekend an IT specialist, Gerasimos Melissaratos.
At the Rice Research Institute in Gilan, I met Mr Rezai, an irrigation engineer who believes it is essential to look at the wider picture if the rice farmers are to sustain production.
When I first met her several years ago, I spent an afternoon with her.
Although I had an exhausting RSA this year (I met one on one with 48 vendors) my survey of the industry was not exhaustive.
"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over several months I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online, " he said.
But I respect the cause and I respect the call, but I'm just interested to find an American, because when I met the other prisoners, who were in very bad shape, they seem to be from a number of very poor countries.
In Tokyo, I met with John Gauntner, an American wine expert who had just penned what was then the very first English language guide to sake (there are now several).
Recently I had the chance to describe swarm intelligence and the Southwest Airlines boarding process to an avid video gamer I met.
Last week I got an e-mail from someone I had never met that began by saying "I'm reaching out to you" and ended "warmest personal regards".
As an aside, I met Ibn many years ago, when he would regularly speak at the New Orleans conference.
FORBES: 2011 Forecast: World Outperforms U.S., Europe Scuttles
"I met Zuckerberg, and Sean gave me an amazing pitch about what Facebook is, " he says.
There, I met a classmate, who is now an industrialist and someone I had not seen in years.
BBC: Hometown Karachi: Returning to report on a bleeding city
"I met Thierry Henry when I was filming an advert for a Nike commercial in Rome and I played the part of his body double, " said Sestanovich.
In 2010, I wrote an essay about him and met the film director Jacob Rosenberg, who invited me to work on "Waiting for Lightning, " a documentary about Mr. Way.
Ben Affleck has come a long way since I first met him and interviewed him as an undergrad student at George Mason University for Good Will Hunting back in 1997.
FORBES: Why Ben Affleck's Argo Should Win The Best Picture Oscar
So when I recently met the founders of a new site called hukkster for drinks at an Eighth Avenue wine bar I was skeptical.
FORBES: NYC Startup Watch: Hukkster (Or How I'll Never Miss A Sale Again)
This was re-inforced when I met Bill Gates for the first time at an executive retreat.
At one of my book signings, I was tweeting with fans and then met them an hour later.
FORBES: E!'s Kendra Wilkinson: How She's Building Her Fitness Brand on Facebook and Twitter
应用推荐