Chapter 6693

Yolden had been a broker back in his days on Wall Street, and then an economics professor when he returned to Aurous Hill. The only thing that remotely linked him to the automotive industry was his driving license. Hence, the keyboard warriors and armchair generals were leaping online to forecast failure, especially with the two families betting everything on Curtis Autos, only to top it all off with a newbie as their CEO. Some even used the Titanic as an example—it was a marvelous vessel, and the passengers were equally prestigious, but the captain proved to be so incompetent that the unsinkable ship sank. While only insiders were aware that there was far more to Yolden's knowledge of the automotive business than mere speculation, even Claire was voicing her doubts to Charlie after the launch conference. "He's just a professor," she said. "Can he really succeed in supervising a multi-billion-dollar project of that scale? Even the netizens were vocally skeptical when I looked thro