You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: The Offer
They gave me the stage at two o'clock.
It was the same stage, in the same atrium, under the same glass.
The screen behind it had been wiped blank.
Fourteen hundred people stood on the marble floor.
The building had no other room big enough to hold them.
My mother sat in the front row with her parka folded in her lap.
Bridger sat next to her, holding the fern.
The woman with the pen stood at the lectern with the board's offer in a leather folder.
"Mr. Torvik," she said into the microphone. "On behalf of the board, I offer you the post of chief executive officer."
A murmur ran through the room.
"The salary is eleven million dollars a year, with equity. The board has voted. Mr. Hallett, the chairman, concurs."
She nodded toward the first row.
Gilbert sat there without his chair, very straight, in the dark suit.
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