On the wall, a flat-screen monitor with the caption "MeshNetics Confidential" flashed snapshots from the summer, when this start-up company seemed to have harnessed the best ambitions of a new Russia.
It starts with the best of ambitions: a determination to keep to a rigorous workout routine and a sensible diet.
First, and best, is the ambition with which the young Corder seized his moment, flooding the ballet with a torrent of ideas and emotion.
I stuck to the commissions, seeing 12 of the 13 events that Performa produced on its own or in collaboration with other organizations, figuring they best represented its ambition and character.
In a statement demonstrating a level of ambition best described as lacklustre, Nicky Morgan - the minister for women and equalities - claims this transparency will end the gender pay gap within "a generation".
After a leap ahead in 2001 with "Blackwater Park," and then a step back on "Damnation," with song after song of wool-gathering, dark-folk strumming, Opeth has brought back the best of its ambition and drama.
The impressions that he retained from this visit were to inspire his paintings and his Discourses for the rest of his life, for he felt that it was by allying painting with scholarship that he could best achieve his ambition of raising the status of his profession back in England.
This much is certain: many of the finest players in the world will be in these islands over the next four weeks or so, and if they bring the best of their ambition with them, we stand a fighting chance of witnessing something memorable.
The James Bond flick The World Is Not Enough best describes the ambition of Bill Gates and Steve Case.
And Hart is blunt about the club's determination to usurp the Catalan giants as the continent's best - an ambition that transcends more local considerations.
And how can you weigh up which subjects best suit your ambitions?
