The heavy metal doors of the Sunnyvale warehouse were rolled down, sealing the massive space against the blazing afternoon heat. Inside, the environment had completely transformed over the weekend. The single folding table was gone. In its place was a massive, U-shaped command center composed of steel desks, six cathode-ray tube monitors, and a sprawling whiteboard wall.
Quinn Harper stood in front of the whiteboard, holding a black dry-erase marker. She was staring at a complex organizational chart she had just drawn.
"The corporate structure works on paper," Quinn said, tapping the board with the marker. "Vanguard Technologies sits at the top as a blind holding company. Pixel-Fold operates as a standalone data compression vendor. Avalon Systems licenses the database architecture. And A
