Everything Went According to Plan. In Hindsight.

The future is a remarkably dependable partner in business presentations. It arrives on time, follows the forecasts, and moves steadily towards the top right-hand corner of every graph. Reality, unfortunately, has never been quite so cooperative. At one particularly promising technology company, growth was everything, losses were investments in tomorrow, and asking where the money would come from was considered a regrettable lack of vision. For a while, everyone was delighted. Then the investors began asking questions. What happened next was a remarkable lesson in the difference between being wrong and having been right under different circumstances.