Ruining His IPO With One Click

Summary

After seven years of bleeding for this company alongside Marcus, we finally rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

And then Vivian Shaw waltzed in, appointed as our new Chief Executive Officer.

"Elena’s profit margin on this supplier contract is far too low," Vivian said, gesturing languidly toward the thick stack of papers on the mahogany desk. "Let's just scrap it and void the deal."

She was pointing at the exclusive distribution agreement I had spent three months securing—the highest margin anyone in our industry had ever negotiated, signed only after I drank myself into…