Soon they had landed their first client, to the tune of twenty thousand dollars. Gendler and de Montebello weren’t mercenary; they wanted to focus only on speakers whose message they really believed in.
Uh huh. Of course they did. And no one who couldn't pay an entire year's salary had anything of worth to say, obviously. It's not as if people who have 20 fucking grand to spare are highly correlated with people who have *already* learnt to sell their ideas or anything
