I stood at the front with Jonah, Priya, and our team and remembered my first night in Charlotte, when all I owned fit into a borrowed car.

I remembered feeding three babies on two hours of sleep and wondering whether the next invoice would be paid on time.

We had built this without a famous family name.

We had also built it with help, because independence was never the same as doing everything alone.

Miriam had held my babies when I was exhausted.

Priya had brought food.

Jonah had trusted my judgment on the first job when he could easily have found somebody more established.