Barely six hours had passed since Jonathan posted the unboxing video, and he was already staring at official offers in the tens of billions. One entity in particular had even offered an outrageous amount of $100 billion.
Jonathan was genuinely scared now. Every time the figure grew, it felt less like winning something and more like being slowly buried under it.
And to make things worse, some of the companies making the largest offers had gone public with them, putting their figures out in the open, framing themselves as hopeful, humble, invested in the advancement of science and technology.
Anyone with a brain could see exactly what they were doing: turning millions of strangers into a pressure campaign aimed squarely at him. And it was working. It couldn't help but work. Mention numbers like ten billion, sixty billion, and people lost their minds — especially the ones who never stopped to think first.
