Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 299

As for the other two core visionaries, they had already been absorbed into Apex Tech. There was no way they’d abandon a titan like Apex to gamble on a fledgling startup.

In her previous life, Apex Tech wouldn't begin developing their own smartphone OS for another three years.

They had spent a grueling decade compressing thirty years of Western technological advancement to finally achieve a fully autonomous, sovereign operating system.

It wasn't that Mira hadn't considered partnering with Apex Tech, but as of right now, her operation was a drop in the bucket. A behemoth like Apex wouldn't even give them the time of day.

“How exactly do you know these specific people are going to be top-tier tech pioneers?”

Owen asked, his brows knitting together in suspicion.

“I dug them up through Master Ellis's intelligence network.”

Mira noticed him staring at her intensely. “You don't believe me?”

“Our mentor plays favorites way too much.”

Master Ellis handed Mira everything on a silver platter. They were both his students, so why hadn't Owen ever received this kind of VIP treatment?

Just saying it out loud made Owen slightly bitter.

He was genuinely a little jealous.

“Well, you're the tough, reliable guy. You're tall, intimidating, and a lethal fighter. Of course he doesn't worry about you.

And I'm just a fragile girl. It's perfectly natural for him to dote on me a bit more.”

Sometimes, her lethal partner acted like a petulant child.

“Kiss-ass. That 'old man' just turned forty.”

Mira rolled her eyes.

*I'd love to see you say that to his face,* she thought.

But she kept her mouth shut. She needed a favor from him right now, after all.

“Also, hire a top-tier headhunting firm. We need to lure in elite talent from overseas with massive paychecks.”

When it came to network and software architecture, there was no denying that foreign tech was currently lightyears ahead.

Once they finalized the roadmap, the exhaustion finally hit Mira.

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