Adrian's POVThe board meeting lasted two hours and seventeen minutes.I know because I looked at the clock when we went in and looked at it again when we came out.Not because I was watching the time.Because I wanted to remember exactly how long it took to give something away.The proposal landed the way significant things landed when they arrived before anyone expected them.A long silence first.Not hostile.The silence of people recalibrating.Then Patricia Suen — who had asked me once, in a different board meeting, whether Iris must be something — looked at the governance proposal for a long time.Then at me."You're proposing this voluntarily," she said."Yes," I said."Before we asked," she said."Yes," I said."Why?" she said.Not combatively.The genuine question of a woman who had been in boardrooms for thirty years and had never seen this particular motion.I held her gaze."Because the structure was mine," I said. "I built it. I used it. The decisions it enabled were mine
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