Here's the twist: the closing of the Chase account led to Alex's career tanking. Thus began a downward spiral of his life. His wife left him and took the kids. He turned to the bottle and it got worse from there. He became indebted to the wrong people.
It was then he remembered that Hashicorp account. When he was shown the door at Chase, the account had a few hundred grand in it. Through knowledge of internal procedures and some social engineering, he began fraudulently obtaining funds from the account. He hoped they had forgotten that the account existed. It must be pennies to those people, they shuffle around millions without batting an eye.
Then, one day the cops show up at his seedy motel room. He was arrested for the fraud and found guilty. The judge was particularly heavy-handed and gave him 10 years, despite no priors.
Alex kept a picture of the founder of Hashicorp on the wall of his cell all those years, blaming him for the turn his life took. He did push ups and other exercises to keep himself somewhat sane. All the while, dreaming of the day he would get out and take his revenge.
Fast forward to today and Alex is recently released from prison. Biding his time, plotting his revenge...
Alex spends a lot of time on hacker news, hate-reading about these startup types that ruin lives. Getting into the mind of his enemy. One last twist, Alex is me! /s
Well, Hashicorp did more or less everything right. Except of building a working relationship with Chase in LA. Heck, the even conducted audits, and apparently no money was lost.
Hi Alex, I am a Hollywood producer working at a major motion picture studio responsible for films getting greenlit. Everybody around the office was buzzing about your idea as the basis for a potential screenplay and I was just about to offer you $750,000 for the story rights until an intern pointed to another story (we don't understand what most of the things discussed on your forum are) and we found out about this ChatGPT4 thing.
A few phone calls later and with early access to their product acquired - suffice it to say we were able to generate more ideas of similar caliber than we know what to do with for $0.75 and will be reevaluating our business practices going forward.
I wish you best of luck on your murderous rampage.
It was then he remembered that Hashicorp account. When he was shown the door at Chase, the account had a few hundred grand in it. Through knowledge of internal procedures and some social engineering, he began fraudulently obtaining funds from the account. He hoped they had forgotten that the account existed. It must be pennies to those people, they shuffle around millions without batting an eye.
Then, one day the cops show up at his seedy motel room. He was arrested for the fraud and found guilty. The judge was particularly heavy-handed and gave him 10 years, despite no priors.
Alex kept a picture of the founder of Hashicorp on the wall of his cell all those years, blaming him for the turn his life took. He did push ups and other exercises to keep himself somewhat sane. All the while, dreaming of the day he would get out and take his revenge.
Fast forward to today and Alex is recently released from prison. Biding his time, plotting his revenge...
Alex spends a lot of time on hacker news, hate-reading about these startup types that ruin lives. Getting into the mind of his enemy. One last twist, Alex is me! /s