Version A was a masterpiece. Crisp design, clean graphs, real projections. It was the kind of deck that could make investors applaud and analysts sit up and take note. Ethan worked on it with his usual precision, right down to the placement of commas and the alignment of footnotes. Professional pride mattered.
Version B, however, was performance art. It was a chaotic blend of meaningless metrics and inspirational nonsense. It claimed a massive growth in “customer satisfaction” and proposed “empathy quantification” as a future KPI. In short, it was jargon, presented with an extra dressing of stupidity. Brad’s favorite flavor.