She paused, taking a bite of the baozi and chewing methodically.
"I know what's coming. What technologies will matter in three years, five years, ten years. What markets will grow and which will collapse. What regulatory changes are likely and how to position ourselves to benefit from them. I'm not making educated guesses, I'm implementing knowledge of actual outcomes. I just have to position us correctly to take advantage of patterns I've already seen play out once."
Jin Boyuan, who had been sitting quietly in the corner and clearly still processing everything he'd witnessed over the last two days, spoke up hesitantly, his voice carrying the weight of a question he'd been afraid to ask but couldn't hold back any longer.
"The people you fired yesterday..." He swallowed hard, his hands clenching nervously in his lap. "Were any of them... I mean, did you..." He couldn't finish the question, couldn't bring himself to say the words, but everyone understood what he was asking.
