Sometimes, it’s a question of asking the right question

With the NBA about to relaunch its season within a makeshift format in a few weeks, I happened to come across wise advice from a minority investor of the Golden State Warriors.

His name is Chamath Palihapitiya, which was new to me, but I don’t follow sports all that closely. Of course, nor has anyone else these past few months.

What struck me was that Palihapitiya, who happens to be a 43-year-old billionaire, was born to poverty in Sri Lanka and immigrated with his parents to Canada at the age of 6.

He made his fortune as one of the early executives at AOL, and then joined Facebook in 2005, which might as well be eons ago since we’re talking about the tech explosion.

These days, he’s chairman of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s privately funded race into the farthest galaxies of space, plus he’s Ceo/founder of a venture capital firm that invests in socially conscious companies and causes, such as ethnic and gender diversity.

He’s also a world-class professional poker player, which doubly caught my eye because of the article I happened to see on CNBC’S website, about his insights into the risky perils of job interviews.

Evidently, what sparked the topic was a tweet from Palihapitiya that proclaimed one of hiring’s enduring truths, that interviewing for a job “sucks for everyone” — surely an exaggeration, but I got his point.

As for what question he would ask almost any applicant for any

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