When Chapman was on the way to his first finance job interview he got in a motorcycle accident.
Banged up with a suit covered in glass and blood "gushing out" of him, Chapman still went in for his interview with
Chapman relays the story in an email to us (Note: lightly edited for clarity):
"...I ended up flying through the back glass shell window on a pickup truck that stopped suddenly in front of me. The guy comes around and says, 'Holy sh**, you alright? You are bleeding pretty bad … I gotta take you to the hospital.' I reply, 'No, you gotta take me to Salomon Brothers.' I show up at Salomon’s SF HQ, blood spurts all over my résumé when I hand it to the associate recruiting me (Bill Frasier), and then I tell the managing director (Bill Thompson, soon to be head of PIMCO) and the trading room the story of my accident. I get the job on the spot."
Now that's badass.