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Title: The Summit of DustStory:The notification arrived at 11:47 AM. Arjun's startup, NexaCore, had just been acquired for $470 million. His team erupted—cheers, champagne spraying across the conference glass. He'd dreamed of this moment for fifteen years.He felt nothing.Not a flicker. Not a pulse of joy. Just the quiet hum of the air conditioner and the distant memory of wanting something he'd already eaten alive.Arjun had built NexaCore from a leaking basement apartment. Missed funerals. Divorced before thirty. A daughter who called him "Arjun" instead of "Dad" because he'd been a quarterly earnings report in human form for so long,