As for the employees who handed in their resignations the moment things looked grim, she let them walk. There was no point in keeping people who lacked loyalty.
Purging the cowards left only the hardened core of professionals willing to fight for Winrich.
It was the perfect excuse for a massive corporate restructuring.
Where the rest of the industry saw a collapsing empire, Noreen saw the perfect opportunity to burn the dead wood and rebuild stronger.
Her supreme confidence came from the two devastating trump cards she held close to her chest.
A month ago, Centribo's R&D team had finally shattered their technological ceiling, successfully engineering an ultra-high-performance chip.
The moment she debuted it, Winrich would command an untouchable monopoly in the future tech sector.
Her second card was a masterstroke buried so deep no one saw it coming.
Stellaris Tech.
The moment Jasmine first started her pathetic power grabs, Noreen had planted the seed.
If she could build an InnoCore, she could easily build a second, and a third...
That theory became a devastating reality the day she discovered Katy Joyner's raw genius.
Katy had exceeded every expectation. In under six months, she coded a super AI so immensely powerful it made InnoCore look like a child's toy.
Even Jed Hollis, the legendary mentor to Carman Holt, admitted that the super AI developed by Katy's engineering team would deal a fatal blow to everything InnoCore had built the second it hit the market.
Noreen's original plan was to let the chaos peak, then drop both announcements simultaneously to orchestrate Winrich's spectacular resurrection.
She simply didn't expect...
That she would be a step too late.
So, her ultimate revenge would just have to wait.
The moment the executive meeting adjourned, Sophia rushed over, breathless, to report that a mob of visitors had arrived.
She had turned most of them away, but there were a few she simply couldn't decline.

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