'I'm 100% knackered', writes Ed in his diary, 'this afternoon I gave the presentation for the 50th time which means there are 20 to go with a 12 hour flight to Shanghai on Thursday and then on to Tokyo before heading back to Blighty on Saturday. It's been an absolute bugger."
'This morning in
'"Not having to think about ROI, ROE, ROA, cash-flow, product streams, competitors and executing business plans," I reply, tongue in cheek.'
'Of course tongue-in-cheek means nothing to this humour-by-passed financial android, writes Ed.'
'''Do you mean you're going to give up overseeing the affairs of this company?" asks the geek?"'
''"No, no not at all", I reply, unfortunately letting my exasperation show, "I just mean I'll be glad to be back in the
'You could have heard a pin drop. They looked at each other. I could have kicked myself.
'"Well I think I've heard enough", says the thin-lipped juvenile geek. He gets up. So do the others. I think you can say they're not going to be enthusiastic investors.'
'Oh well,' Ed confides to his diary, 'only 11 days to go to the IPO and then I can forget this wank and wallow in a walloping welter of wealth."
Are there any more installments to this series since Nov 8? I found this to be quite humorous (and not to far from reality) and had hoped to read about Ed's travails in the Post IPO days
Well I hadn't intended to reveal more of Ed's diary entires - his life got a bit messy after the IPO, divorce, ripped off by a gold-digger and some other woes, Andrew, but I'll have a look at what might be possible
I thought you were writing the screenplay now :-)
Yes, Mike, it's just that my Hollywood agent seems disgracefully negligent in arranging terms