It's a way to sell their book. In interviews now, Chai insists that her career as a dissident is history. Jenzabar's PR firm now primes would-be interviewers, insisting that Chai doesn't want to go back over the past, that she is now looking to the future. It isn't fair that this great team comes in here and works 16 hours a day, seven days a week, and the focus is on me, on my life. Tucked away behind St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Cambridge, the company's offices are a warren of shabby, bare cubicles and winding stairways.
Dogs stroll the aisles.
The walls are plastered with gaudy college banners. The company is in the final stages of acquiring its first round of venture-capital financing, Chai says. It's a tale Chai both exploits and rejects. I spent nine years building an identity, and China is just one part of that. In fact, at this point, it's a very small part.