It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from—first impressions can shape an entire career. Just ask Henry Kravis.
Long before he had $16.5 billion to his name by cofounding KKR, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, Kravis was a college graduate trying to find his footing on Wall Street. In the 1960s, while working a summer trainee job at the Madison Fund, his boss sent him to meet alone with Roy O. Disney, the brother of Walt, and then the CEO of Walt Disney Company. Kravis was intimidated—but he decided the only thing he could control was how prepared he was.
