Success arrives messy—three contracts signed, one threatening cancellation, Alex wanting to scale faster. David mentors a stranger and realizes: you don't cross to the other side once. You cross again and again.
Alex shakes David's hand at a coffee shop, sealing a partnership. Two desks, fourteen-hour days, and the exhilarating terror of building something that might fail spectacularly.
Following a founder's transformation from corporate employee to entrepreneur, told through the archetypal pattern of myth and the raw truth of lived experience.