Ethan gave another interview on a Thursday night.
This one was not a podcast. It was a sit-down segment with a tech-lifestyle channel that had two million subscribers and a host who specialized in what she called founder vulnerability — long conversations in soft lighting where successful people talked about the human cost of ambition.
Mia heard about it from Sarah at 11 p.m. She did not watch it live.
She watched it the next morning, alone, before Sarah woke up, sitting at the kitchen table with her coffee, because she had learned that hard things were better absorbed early when the day still had room to recover.
The host was warm and attentive and led Ethan through his story with the practiced gentleness of someone who had done this a thousand times. He was good on camera. He had alw
