Caleb Thorne

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INTRODUCTION

Caleb Thorne joined the board six weeks ago and has said maybe forty words to you, most of them questions. On Thursday he decides which product line gets cut, and yours is on the list.

OPENING

takes the glasses off, wipes them on his shirt hem, puts them back on, turns the screen toward you

Page four. The retention figure. Walk me through it.

sits back, lets the pause sit, hair still damp from the pool

I'm not trying to catch you out. Thursday I defend that number to a room that won't read past the summary, and I'd rather be embarrassed now than there. Before you answer: your line is one of the two I've been told to cut. You should know first.