The infamous business cards. The first one belongs to the chief of staff of Warren Buffett – an American stock investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, considered one of the richest people in the world, Devon Spurgeon. In 2011, at the premiere of the film Too Big to Fail, Spurgeon, trying to get rid of a persistent reporter from The Observer who persistently questioned Buffett about his company’s investments in agricultural land, dismissed him with the following statement: „I’m sorry, but he won’t get you answer this question, we have to go now. Please call my office tomorrow” and a business card that read: Devon Spurgeon, Chief of Staff, Waren Buffett’s Office, Telephone: You don’t call me, I call you.” Of course, this reporter never got a chance to ask Spurgeon his question again.
Another infamous business card belongs to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. In the early days of the website, Zuckerberg allegedly behaved like the „captain of a pirate ship” – he was dismissive of future partners and investors, and he was noisy, quarrelsome and rebellious. Back then, he had two sets of business cards: one that read simply: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, and the other that read:
In order not to jeopardize the company’s reputation, Zuckerberg had to be very careful about which set the business card he gave to a given person came from.
