Lynch was irate, and for a couple of days everybody avoided him. Then one morning, he was at his desk, smirking like a boy with the key to the cookie jar.
What happened? I asked.
"I can't tell you," he said, his grin growing.
But, of course, it was Lynch; he had to tell. He pointed at his computer monitor on which was displayed information on a company called Memory Pharmaceuticals, founded by Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, and a competitor of Lynch's biotech company, Cortex Pharmaceuticals.
"I'm shorting Eric's stock," Lynch said and cackled.