well, one thing that ruin this whole industry is ego. i was overhearing a short convo between a pretty wealthy fishy guy and someone i know, not a friend, but not an unknown either, and they were talking about the ME. The fishy guy, who busted out of the ME on day 2 and already came back to Russia said "Dennis Phillips is great - i'm sure he'll make the FT this year too, he came in third last year", and that acquaintance of mine told him literally this: "Don't be ridiculous, he's a fish". The fishy guy looked like he was humbled.

When I caught up with the guy afterwards, I told him he was an idiot. He didn't get it.