With a friend from college, he co-founded a small consulting firm called Jaywalk in 1999.

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He described how he met Mrs Crompton, 34, in August 2010 through a friend from art college called Jamie Lynch who he called Jim.

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Back in the 1990s, a friend of mine from Antioch College, went to a local evangelical college whose name escapes me.

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The idea for the Grateful Grads Index actually came from a friend of mine who is a graduate of Harvard, who had just returned from his 30-year college reunion.

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And that, my friends, is a cautionary tale about accepting Facebook friend requests from random people from high school and college that you barely remember.

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After college he applied to work at McKinsey and again got invaluable help from a friend who had been through the multi-phase interview process.

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