Hull

"when Stokes heard she had relapsed after treatment, he organised an appointment with Sydney’s best specialist and flew them both there. Hull would never forget the gesture. Nor the fact, years later, that Stokes discreetly helped him in a legal matter that was important to Hull and of no advantage to Stokes, by then his former employer. Hull didn’t know then what he heard about later: that Stokes helped a lot of people on the quiet."

"Years later, Hull came to recognize McCaw's central motivation: to find people whose skills matched the jobs to be done. Throughout his career, McCaw showed a remarkable ability to pick people suited for the tasks ahead. "He recognizes people's strengths and weaknesses," Hull says."

""He was much more refined than I, much more mannered, very calm," says Hull. "You'd go in to talk to him and sometimes he wouldn't say anything for a while, and you'd have to say something because it was too uncomfortable. I don't know if that was a trick or something, but he was just a really mellow guy.""