Much can be read about the inequality of power in oral history between the parties involved in the interview. Asymmetries are encountered on many levels, sometimes simultaneously, including origin, ethnicity, color, gender, or education, but also economic situation. This is especially true when the interviews are conducted with representatives of marginalized or vulnerable communities. Hence the whole discussion has been undertaken on how to overcome these differences with the concept of shared authority at the forefront. But what happens when there is a shift of asymmetry into the other direction? E.g., in the case of interviews with people of high birth, with representatives of the privileged classes, the so-called cultural, governmental, or finally business elites. The paper will discuss the power relationship between the researcher and his interviewees – Polish businessmen, whose professional careers were linked to the so-called Polonia Firms, kind of joint-ventures established in communist Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. The narrators, most of whom today live at a completely different economic level compared to the academic who talks to them, often express a sense of their superiority and treat the interviewer as a petitioner, situated rather far away in their order of importance. This unusual experience has given rise to a rethinking of the relationship of power and dependency in oral history.