Notice that the entrepreneur’s failure to convey his idea to PG was not, evidently, a failure of Thought—as you footnote, his system was actually pretty well-thought-out. Instead it was a failure of Communication. This distinction is important and shouldn’t be blurred. Communication requires two parties, and a failure of Communication can’t always be definitely attributed to one side or the other; maybe PG just wasn’t asking the right questions. Or maybe he didn’t care about understanding the idea at all but just wanted to probe the entrepreneur’s ability to remain steady under pressure, which ability is obviously advantageous to would-be-CEOs.
Notice that the entrepreneur’s failure to convey his idea to PG was not, evidently, a failure of Thought—as you footnote, his system was actually pretty well-thought-out. Instead it was a failure of Communication. This distinction is important and shouldn’t be blurred. Communication requires two parties, and a failure of Communication can’t always be definitely attributed to one side or the other; maybe PG just wasn’t asking the right questions. Or maybe he didn’t care about understanding the idea at all but just wanted to probe the entrepreneur’s ability to remain steady under pressure, which ability is obviously advantageous to would-be-CEOs.