At this point I could tell there was a bit of vague interest. I took a deep breath and plunged ahead. “We are going to build a skateboard that every single skater on the planet must have.”
I clicked to the next slide. It showed the same skateboard, only now the wheels had big red X’s over them. “What if you could get rid of the wheels entirely—and make a skate board that could float on air?”
I paused dramatically and pulled up my next slide. “Introducing the ZG Board. ‘ZG’ stands for ‘zero gravity,’ of course. It is my belief that not only will every existing skater buy—”
“Oh, I get it. Like the one Michael J. Fox used in Back to the Future?”
I completely missed the sarcasm.
“Yes, exactly!” I smiled and pointed at the speaker. It was Michael Simons, chairman of the board for the Green
