Security footage and witness testimony left her no room, and she eventually accepted responsibility for the assault.

At a formal shareholder meeting, Conrad tried to defend his position.

“This is a private marital matter that has gotten out of hand.” A senior board member answered him, cold.

“It stopped being private the moment company funds were used to finance it.” That was the sentence, I think, that Conrad first understood he could not smile his way past.

He had spent his whole career treating the company as an extension of himself.

It had not occurred to him that the company might, one day, look back.