At the Star Entertainment table, Vivian had her tablet open beside her as she ran parallel evaluations alongside Stan while coordinating with Madeline Chen and the other shareholders on the more contested prospects.
Her performance throughout the evening had improved steadily.
Her judgments were increasingly precise.
More importantly, her ability to explain why one performer represented a superior strategic fit than another had sharpened noticeably with each round of discussion.
She no longer sounded like someone simply giving opinions. She sounded like an executive building positions.
Madeline noticed it. So did Stan. She was good...
Beside him, Xenia listened quietly to most of the discussion, occasionally contributing observations from a streamer's perspective — an angle several traditional executives at the table lacked instinctively.
She pointed out which personalities would translate effectively into short-form content ecosystems.
