Months later, Mom and I sat together at the same table where the “intervention” had begun. She apologized for believing Derek without ever asking me the truth. I told her the hardest part wasn’t that my family thought I was unsuccessful—it was that they only respected me after seeing a $4.08 billion valuation. My company’s value changed their opinion, but it never determined my worth.
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