[ Did he have time for this? He would have laughed, if it wouldn't have been rude. He was here for a reason, and networking was as important a reason as any. And if anyone thought that the inner workings of Starktech had been hampered, stopped, or stilled, well... They obviously didn't know how well it ran without his physical presence.

Then again, there was a reason for that. He ran it like that because he didn't want people to know when he was gone.

He put a hand on his hip, like he was insulted on her behalf. ]

So you're busy trying to do something that you're not really an expert on. Just lovely. [ His mouth flattened into a frown. ] What are you going to do, here? They put me in R&D, before I started my own company. I'm sure you can imagine, designing technology to make other people rich is not exactly how I spend my time.