Julian struck like a viper, going for the throat.
He rallied every board member who owed him favors, every old-guard dinosaur who resented Sterling's tech vision, every shareholder hungry for blood. The motion was surgical in its brutality: an emergency meeting to remove Sterling as CEO, citing "catastrophic leadership failures and personal conflicts compromising company integrity."
Game over. Final round.
The news hit on a day when New York's sky looked like dirty concrete. Rain hammered the hotel windows while I stared out at the gray wasteland below. My phone buzzed with texts from reporters, missed calls from board members, and urgent emails from lawyers. Everyone wanted a statement about the "Prescott succession crisis."
Julian played this perfectly. My Silicon Valley campaign—mea
