reaching out to ex interviewee?

(I'm going to be vague on a couple of things here) A couple of years ago, i bombed an (my very first) interview for an internship. It hit me pretty hard and I remember it vividly. Long story short, I got the interview because of my father, who had decided to help me out as i was in a pickle. I found out 1 day in advance that there is an interview and that it was new boutique, set up by a top banker in the country and what they do. Naturally, I got extremely nervous. To make matters worse his partner was the alumni of the course i had just dropped out from. The impression i ended up giving the impression that i was a complete noob. So bad, that he ended up asking me "IF" i knew about the financial crisis and i ended up saying no ( when i had just finished reading when music stopped and was reading fault lines, i think). Yeap, i was that nervous. Since then, ive come a long way. I got my shit together, i graduated, am a CPA (the interviewee is also a CPA) and am currently doing MBA from a top (asian) school. Should I reach out to him? If yes, then should i mention that incident? And yes, i am very interested what they do

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*facepalm, yes it is. Apologies.

whatever takes us away, will be the same to drive us on remember to find a new way to way to carry on.
 

Why remind him? Likely he's told a few people, moved on and only has a vague memory of the whole thing.

By contacting him, all you'll do is reinvigorate the memory with a new twist, invigorating the story so that it can now be told as an anecdote to more diverse conversation partners.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 

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