I never had any practice reading a teleprompter before they put me on live.

Never. The first time I ever read a teleprompter was live on television.

And I was terrible.

I'm Chris Hill and that was CNBC host Becky Quick.

Having interviewed her a bunch of times on this show over the past decade,

I had a theory about her career,

but I wanted to find out more about Becky's path to the anchor desk.

So before the pandemic, I went to New York City to talk with her in person.

She had just completed three hours of co-hosting squat box

and met me in a conference room just off the set.

We talked about her start at the Wall Street Journal, her move to CNBC,

and how she got to know Warren Buffett by talking with him on a 12-hour flight to China.

Becky was born in Indiana, the oldest of four kids.

Her dad was a geologist and geophysicist,

and his work took the family from Indiana to Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma,

and eventually New Jersey.

She was the editor of her high school newspaper,

and her interest in media stayed with her when she went to college.

So when you get to Rutgers, do you jump right into the school newspaper?

Yes, I actually started the newspaper before I even started classes.

And that was not my choice. That was my mother kind of pushing me again

as the oldest. Like, hey, you need to do more of this.

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