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Rain lashed against the office windows as I stared at the clock—3:47 PM. Persib was battling their fiercest rivals right now, and I was trapped in a budget meeting that felt like eternity. My leg jittered under the table, heart pounding like a drum solo. Last year, I’d have been refreshing Twitter until my thumb cramped, praying for pixelated updates from random fans. But today, my phone lay facedown, buzzing with a rhythm only I understood. When that second vibration hit—sharper, urgent—I palme

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My palms still sweat remembering that Zurich deal unraveling. I'd been chasing Swiss investors for months, meticulously coordinating across Berlin, Singapore, and our Austin HQ. Time zones became landmines - Eva in Berlin missed the 3am call because her calendar synced wrong, Raj's Singapore connection dropped during critical terms negotiation, and my own Austin team huddled around a speakerphone that crackled like frying bacon. We lost €2M in potential funding that morning, the investor's clipp