There were two main reasons why I had kept quiet. For one, it implicated her boss Sanjay, who would presumably be leaving the company if things went well. Instead of me, Sanjay should have been the one to announce it.

There's also... Nobody should have to live in hope that a startup concept would pan out when the odds were so stacked against them. It wasn't that I was a jerk or anything; I hadn't informed her since millions of people try and fail every day to establish their own businesses. It's possible that nothing will come of it. At the eight-week point, things changed dramatically.

Enough. I realized that...