The Preamble
Dimmes Doornheim; a lawyer who cycles almost 5000 km. per year. I had automatically presumed a young man or middle aged at the most. But then someone added wealth of merger and acquisition experience to the list of adjectives. I thought; at least one of these has to be wrong. Well, I was wrong. All the above were true; I realised, when I entered the board room where I met him for the first time. After introductions were done; some work was discussed and I was about to leave; when I had to ask him. Do you really cycle that much in a year? "Yes, it is easy; even you can do it!!" was his prompt reply. A man in his mid 60s with super integrity and energy that was the conclusion I drew from that meeting. I think that on that day destiny and stage was set for a trip and experience of a lifetime. We both met again at the brainstorming of session where my partners and me were consulting him for our startup. And the fine gentleman had hosted us at his holiday home in Nice, France. And...