By train to Farringdon, then a beautiful walk through the City – past Smithfield and St Paul’s, through Postman’s Park – to meet Michael Thompson, a partner at Steptoe and Johnson, a big City law firm. Michael was the man we relied on to burn the midnight oil on another.com‘s various deals, fund raisings and partnerships. The kind of hard-working corporate lawyer who’d still be at his desk if you called him at 11 pm. Heroic.
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.