Prashant Ivaturi

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The year was 2006. I had just started on the new project (Margin Management) in Chicago and was catching up. It was our first meeting with Dan. Subodh, Emmanuel, Kavitha and I were there in the room with Dan. We had a lot of questions about the application. Dan brought in a cup full of colorful jelly beans and announced that we would get one or more jelly beans depending on how good our questions were. As we went ahead asking questions, he went on passing some jelly beans to the person who raised the questions. As it was a client meeting, we did not eat any of the jelly beans, but then Dan interrupted and asked us to go ahead and eat some. As soon as we put them in our mouth, we realized that we did not like those and they tasted real bad. We did not want to upset Dan and tried to put on a brave face (I am sure he would have made out that we did not like them). Kavitha just kept her mouth closed and did not chew on them. Dan asks each one of us “Did you like them”? Emman...