My brother mocked my startup as a “little project” at Dad’s birthday—until the truth behind it turned the entire room silent

with Fortune 500 companies. The patent approvals for our AI architecture that was about to revolutionize natural language processing.

Instead, I said, “I can’t. Not yet.”

The room erupted in laughter.

“Not yet,” Marcus mimicked. “Sarah, there is no yet. There’s just you wasting your life while the rest of us live in the real world.”

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