When What
| 2002 | Maura Graduates from Stanford. Works at WordPower blogging platform. Donald moves to Silicon Valley with his partner. |
| 2004: | Maura meets Donald. Dating experience. |
| Maura marries Donald, just three months later. Starts freelance writing small business articles. Her mother hated her dropping her job. | |
| SoShall goes public. Donald takes jets on test drives, installs servers, builds his fortress. | |
| 2005: | SoShall tanked. Donald goes deep dive. Maura continues to freelance. Fascinated by blogging in general. Donald doesn’t want her working. Donald can preserve his vision of ideal family. Donald makes a living consulting. Chinese are his best clients. |
| 2007: | Donald gets MeetYUP funded. Virtual teamworks for enterprises. Wants Maura to work for him there, but only part time, and controlled. She meets Nate, his VP development. Has friction over Nate’s sloppy approach, overpromising. |
| 2007: | Jack is born. It’s really John Peter, but Donald insists on Jack, and not John Joseph, like Maura’s father. Maura’s desire to continue working is a source of tension between her and Donald. She drops out, happily. |
| 2010: | MeetYUP isn’t growing. Maura discovers Donald is good at fundraising but doesn’t actually do the work. Nate and Donald have a falling out, Donald is furious at Maura for talking to Nate. Nate is doing all the work. Nate complains to Maura often. Maura is frustrated with Donald’s objections to child care, Jack seems neglected. Maura talks to her dad. |
| Taxes come down hard on Donald. | |
| 2011: | February: Donald is angry about everything, retreats … taxes become a big deal … he ignores Jack. |
| May. The Divorce. Jack is 4. Donald issues threats. | |
| 2012: | Maura takes fulltime job with WordPower. Struggling with single parenting and Donald’s lack of cooperation. She meets Matt and Janet at WordPower. |
| 2014: | Maura comes up with Syfon. Late at night. She finds Celia. Early on she’s approached by Nate Yalonis to join. He heard she was looking. She doesn’t trust him. He bad-mouths Donald and MeetYUP. She talks to WordPower. Gets permission. |
| 2014 | She learns from the nanny and yacht captain and freaks out. Contempt of court and makeup time. |
| 2015: | Maura makes progress. Meeting with bosses at WordPower. |
| 2016: | April: a high point. The presentation for SWAG. Everything looking good. |
| May: The opening scene takes place in 2016. The low point. Nate, now financed by Donald, files suit against Syfon for using software owned by MeetYUP, developed by MeetYUP under his supervision. then by claiming software ownership as he jumps. | |
| June: Matt lands client #1. Donald sues for custody of Jack. | |
| October: the trial. Highs and lows. | |
| November: Matt lands client #2 | |
| 2017: | Maura hires. Business is growing. |
| Coffee with Dan, Matt, and Maura. Apply for SWAG 2017. Nope. | |
| Celia and Carlos in Zihua, March. | |
| Matt and Janet figure it out | |
| 2017 | Celia’s interview. Matt and Janet get their money back, in spades. |
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