The godfather of manicures and India's Silicon Valley
The History Hour
Peter Ghazadi and Brian Bantam
Bantam offered a quarter of a million dollars advance for Stephen Hawking's new book. But the contract almost didn't go through as Bantam was concerned about his health. Back then Stephen Hawking could still use his own voice though it was hard to understand. Peter Ghazadi says he could blink and he could move his fingers and use a joystick to move his wheelchair. The first meeting was in a car park wasn't it? It set the tone really didn't it for your working relationship for the next few years? Yes. There'd be a few more moments like that.
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