The first is a cop-out, since not making estimates is not going to make uncertainty go away, and the second will leave you on the sidelines with any young, growth company.
But the structure seems sound, and it isn't giving anything away to disclose what viewers almost immediately learn via flashback: That Nick was an ex-cop serving 25-years at Sing Sing, where he fought with other inmates and revealed to the prison psychiatrist that, yes, he thinks about killing himself all the time.