On 9/11/2001, I was in the midst of a job search. I was up almost all night trying to understand what had happened and why. Never a television watcher until that time, I was glued all night.
I had an interview the next day — late round meetings at Netegrity. A few weeks earlier, I had spent a fantastic afternoon and early evening meeting with Barry Bycoff, the CEO, and Jim Hayden, the CFO. These were very pleasing folk with whom to think about doing business.
Just as I was leaving my house, the news outlets had begun publishing names of victims. I saw James Hayden from Westford MA crawl by… and thought to myself, “not a common name, and Westford’s not a large town.”
It was the Jim Hayden I had met a few weeks prior. Furthermore, I learned that day, Barry was at the gate, gate door closed, but plane still at the end of the jetway, demanding to be allowed to board the plane.
They did not allow him to board. He lived. Jim died.
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