The Reluctant Fundamentalist Page #2

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Most of them don't even know

where their bootstraps are.

You know what, Jim?

We don't really discuss it.

I know you're seeing

a lot of people today, so...

Wait.

Your friends here

don't even know, do they?

That's interesting.

That's lifting up the hood.

So tell me, Changes,

why did you want to come

to America?

For future reference, Jim,

it's "Changez. "

In America,

I get an equal chance to win.

And whether or not

you hire me, Jim,

I am going to win.

Good f***ing answer.

Thank you, God!

I was a soldier

in your economic army.

I worshiped in those

magnificent temples

of money and steel

where men in tailored suits

control the fate

of billion-dollar corporations...

men like me.

You got skylines like that

back home?

You're all smart.

The game changer at

this stage is will.

Do you want excellence

more than the person

sitting next to you?

At Underwood Samson,

we do not get paid for hunches.

The reason why our fees

are higher than any other firm

is because of our unparalleled ability

to not only assess value

but to create it in our

clients' businesses.

We do that by focusing

on the fundamentals.

This is a hypothetical business.

Thanks to groundbreaking research,

BNUS Transportation,

using 11-foot-tall cylinders,

can teleport travelers

to any destination

in the world instantly.

Buenos Aires to Cairo

in a second and a half.

I want you to tell me

what the company is worth.

Information is in your binders.

You have one hour.

Okay.

Is he serious?

So that's as per the third quarter.

Please, continue.

And because of these factors,

I project the total value

of BNUS at $48 billion

with revenue growing at an

average 52% per annum

for the first two years.

I'm not with you

on the growth rate.

Changez,

I've got a five-star

safety rating

from A.B. Townes.

My travel cylinders only cost

11 million bucks apiece.

What is your analysis?

Your company is worthless.

What?

Care to clarify?

Well, A.B. Townes is

all well and good,

but if your business

is convincing a mother

that you can successfully

disarticulate

and then reassemble

all the molecules

in her five-year-old

thousands of miles away,

this technology

is at least a generation away

from practical,

widespread usage.

Is that a hunch?

Because you're not getting paid

for hunches.

No.

Page 68.

Your own market surveys show

72% of your potential travelers

would never use the cylinders

no matter how safe you

proved that they were.

So I should just pack up

and go home?

No, I'm saying you should

pack other people up

and go into shipping.

The same... the same

polling suggests

that 94% of clients

would be okay

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