Let me paint you a picture of the Sterling Empire. Sterling Industries, two hundred and eighty million dollars in assets and a gleaming forty-five-story tower in downtown San Francisco. My father, Richard Sterling, built it from nothing—or so he loves to remind everyone. I graduated from Harvard with my MBA in 2016. Instead of joining the family business like my brother, Alexander, I founded Nexus Advisory. By 2023, we were handling corporate restructuring for midsized tech companies, generating forty-five million in annual revenue. Not bad for what my father called “Victoria’s little hobby.”