[Ipg-smz] Which of your friends/family have you (relatively unexpectedly) gotten to quote for an article?

[Esther Schindler]

Just idle contemplation here, based on a recent online conversion with my high school sweetheart… who became a successful VC in biotech, and is now retired. I was thinking how odd it was that I never had a reason to ask him for input on a story.

On the other hand, I once got to interview my first cousin, a VP at Warner Brothers (off the record) about the future of movie distribution and the technology needed to accomplish it. And not long ago I quoted a high school friend — who’d become an IT recruiter — for a career-related story.

There’s a particular pleasure in those experiences, at least for me. It’s like discovering another facet to your relationship, and learning something new about a person whom you’ve known your whole life. Something positive, that is, since they are authoritative enough on the subject to obviously have useful information to add.

So whom have you gotten to quote?