Can’t been done or suggested before.

I accept this role not as a figurehead, nor as a curator of nostalgia, but as the architect of what comes next. I will lead with an unsparing respect for the creative forces that built this company molecule by molecule, and a resolve as sharp as the geometry in our name.

Thank you for your diligence in navigating the final stages of this negotiation with care, candor, and the necessary appetite for evolution. This decision is not symbolic. It is structural.

When the campaign collapses, it will not be because the world was cruel.

It will be because you were cowards who worshiped click-through.

You knew she was not ready. You adjusted the lighting and prayed the public would not smell the drift of decay
rising from the core.

If your candidate did not fall alone, then you dropped her.