A massive office complex stood in uptown Houston on South Post Road at the corner of Four Oaks Boulevard. There were no oaks on the boulevard anymore. The office complex housed big businesses like Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil, and Titan, the holding company of venture capitalist Atlas Jamison. Holding companies don’t make, buy, or sell anything. They’re just a place to park assets so that if your business goes bankrupt, you get to keep whatever you parked there. Like nothing else in nature, it can’t lose anything and doesn’t bear any consequences. All blue-tinted glass and clean contemporary lines, the complex was surrounded by a landscaped park of scored granite walkways decorated by small trees trimmed to perfect globes, surrounded by concentric circles of begonias. The towers wer
