Robert went on to explain how his set of metrics offered an accurate picture of whether the people who opened their phones to use our app were happy. I nodded along, not caring what he did, thinking instead of his profile on the internal wiki, which I’d scanned on the way to the meeting. He graduated from Pomona five years ago, moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter, and a couple years later, presumably jaded, enrolled at Stanford Business School. Somewhere in there he worked at Deloitte. As he scribbled more numbers on the board, I thought about his screenplays, and what it was about Hollywood that drove him away. Should I interpret his move into business as a withdrawal from the arts, or some kind of subversion? Perhaps he was still working on his screenplays during the shuttle rides home.