My father stood at the head of the glass boardroom and announced that the entire two-billion-dollar future of our biotech company would go to my brother Brent. Then he turned to me, the daughter who had spent seven years building the code beneath it all, and told me to pack my things. My mother smiled like I was being difficult. Brent looked ready to celebrate. But the buyer suddenly stood up, and for the first time that morning, someone in the room asked the one question my family had spent years avoiding.
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