Crash - Part Four by Miranda Dawson

Author:Miranda Dawson [Dawson, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-09T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

John and I never wanted to lease office space. At first, that decision was made for us because we had no money. Now we could afford it, but just didn’t see the need. We both worked from home most of the time and made the occasional trip to the café when we felt the need for a change of scenery, and that had always been enough. Recently, however, I had started giving more thought to all those “office available to rent” signs I saw all over San Francisco.

When we’d first started up the company, no one cared about whether we had an office or not. In fact, it was kind of expected that startup companies would not have office space. Now, though, we were trying to portray ourselves as a serious business and not one still short on cash. The desire to look important was more pronounced than ever today, because it was my first-ever interview with a journalist.

“Sorry about this,” I said as the journalist, Amanda, squeezed herself in to one of the last seats in the café. “It isn’t usually this busy at this time of day.”

“Oh, don’t worry about it,” Amanda said. “I interview founders in places like this all the time. It’s part of the scene in this area. Besides, I’m a freelance journalist, so it’s not like I have an office myself.”

“I’ve never done this before,” I said. “How does this work? Do I have to say ‘off the record’ when I want something to be confidential?”

I wished John was there to provide a bit of support, but Michael had the afternoon off and they wanted to spend some time together. John had always been incredibly supportive about Carter, so I could hardly say no. Besides, as John himself was only too quick to point out, he would have been far more likely to say something stupid than me.

“I guess, but we don’t have to be that formal about it. I plan to show you the article before I publish it, so you can always let me know if you’re not comfortable with something in there. I’m not trying to catch you out—your business sounds like one I can get behind, so I’m just hoping to get you a bit of extra publicity.”

I slumped back in my seat and relaxed a bit. I tried not to take her comments completely at face value, even though they did seem sincere. She would hardly be the first journalist to lie in order to get a good story, but that was probably being arrogant. Few people had even heard of us at this point, so a scandal involving LimbAnalytics would hardly make the front page. A scandal about PharmaTech, on the other hand…

“I take it this interview is all about our lawsuit against PharmaTech?” I asked.

“That was certainly what brought you to my attention, yes. I will need to include details about that in my story, otherwise no one will want to publish it. But, like I said, I’m hoping to bring some good publicity to your business.

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