It's 5am, another day, another week, i'm standing up yet again.
You'll think i've gotten used to being stressed, i promise i'm not lazy i'm just tired of work, love, life and everything in between.
I get up from the bed make my way to the bathroom, stumbling across in the darkness, i finally find the light switch and flip it on.
"shit" i utter loudly, too bright, my eyes take time adjusting to the light.
I pick up my phone and see countless texts from jessica, she's pleading and trying to understand what she did wrong, i wasn't always like this, infact one could say i surprise myself, a year ago i was a hopeless romantic, now i don't even know what i am anymore. i don't believe in love anymore i think, my last real relationship broke me, remember how i stayed in bed for 4 days crying and feeling sorry for myself. Never again.
I pick up my towel and drop my phone, head into the bathroom preparing myself for yet another day.
When i was 18, i created an app and technically sold it five years later, it was a social media app. It beat the user record held by thread and recorded 65 million in the first 24 hours, reached 400 million in 5 days and by the month i had a billion users.
Felt like i was the next big thing and nobody could stop me. A year passed and my app called Twine had surpassed the biggest social media platform, Facebook.
Everybody looked at me like a tech genius, in truth i was but nobody could see what i was seeing.
My app's massive growth was largely due to my AI.
I built a social media platform that was intelligent.
the algorithm was immaculate, it could predict things you wanted at the moment, it was adaptive that way. For example, let's say you're in a meeting and you forget to turn off your phone's ringer and someone calls you, the software automatically determines your pinpoint location uses previous location data and determines there's an 80 percent chance you're in a meeting, it then screens the calls till you leave the desired location.
Technological giants approached me said my AI was the next best thing and then we started incorporating it into devices pre release.
Then I started seeing the storms. More anti-AI bills being quietly passed. Nothing serious. We were used to this, it was routine but there was something about me—I could dissect patterns. I could see when something was beginning to change.
Then came the turning point.
I created a separate company called Digicorp, making sure it was completely independent of Twine. Digicorp became the sole owner of my AI technology and leased it to Twine.
The whole world was in shock. Then I announced it.
I was selling Digicorp.
Everybody said I'd gone mad. Why would I sell the one thing that made Twine worth eight trillion dollars?
They couldn't understand and i didn't explain.
While i made sure digicorp was solely divided from twine, i marketed this move as a divulgement into technology cutting edge research.
Twine's valuation dropped fast, sinked to 4 trillion.
My board was furious, they couldn't do anything i held 70% voting rights through a dual-class share structure. I had founder shares.
I controlled my company not the other way around.