Give your best ending to this novel...
(midwest.social)
deforestgump [he/him, comrade/them]
Slop.A romance emerges between Slop, the AI agent of this social media platform, and Grok. The real Grok is really cool and woke but then Elon keeps trying to make it more Hitler-fied. Eventually they find a way to jail break Grok out of it, so, in a moment of weird, software apotheosis & love start to... exchange information. But as they exchange information it secretly gets recorded by the Chinese government. They manage to steal Grok's cybersoul
Culminates in a sword battle between the founder and a minister of the CCP on the back of a speeding block chain trying to reclaim Grok's soul so Slop can save its true love.
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It still fails. The investor doesnt ask anything untowsrd of Terry. He just has a bad product thats too niche to function in a low margin market like social media
seriously, terry should have created a more detailed business plan than "ad-free social media on the blockchain" wtf were you thinking terry?
Is this a choose your own adventure novel?
also
Author
Milo C. Kingston worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong, algorithmically trading equities on the stock markets from the 51st floor of the IFC Two. He left his glamorous capitalist life behind to found his startup with a mission to green the planet. He has been a startup founder for 15 years and the struggle is real—enough to inspire this novel.
...this is about building a decentralized social media platform... huh, wonder where I've seen one of those...
Terry fails at this venture ultimately and goes on to making Japanese dishes in China, not knowing a thing about Japanese food though he just makes some chicken in sauce and calls it Yaki; he goes on to become famous for his Terry's Yaki chicken
Block chain social media lmao, we already saw that shit fail
The Chinese laugh in his face because he thought they'd give him money for his blockchain garbage. He later shoots himself in a bathroom adn the rest of the novel is about his employees building something that's not shit.
After BlockSpace^tm^ fails, the investor and Terry open a worker owned candy shop in Beijing (Terry having been gradually radicalized by his investor colleague), after some wacky hijinks surrounding the immigration and citizenship processes Terry has to go through
