Flowing eloquently over eight hundred words, his speech detailed the bitter struggles of those three years. Having lived through it himself, he knew all too well that his entrepreneurial venture was like a game of Go: one misstep, and the whole board was lost.
Standing on the stage, he looked at the naive teenagers below, while they looked up at him with a mix of longing and bewilderment.
He thought to himself that perhaps he, too, had once looked up like that, burning with the eager desire to build a great enterprise of his own.
Chapter 24