Chapter 2

[Thank you for loving chapter 1]

Time Skip 1 year

Now it's April. Next month at the beginning Anthony will be kidnapped. During this year, I was able to collect a few $100,000. How did I do it? Well, I sold my robots. And, yes, I completed my helping robot. First was made up of scrap. After that, I made a few more and sold them on Amazon.

The robot was multi-purpose. It helped in finding things. It kept logs of things happening at the house. It wasn't A.I. but complexly programmed ones.

Then, I bought lots of metals from the junkyard. Even though it was a junkyard, I could find some pretty good metal plates, bearings, motors, wires, screws and so on. Which I bought in bulk. I set up my workshop in my garage and store of raw materials in another metal compartment I made out in the garden.

When I was slowly hammering the metal plates with hydraulics, I was laughing thinking of Tony Stark at the cave. After a few 10's of robots being sold, I was recommended by users to use plastic instead of metal. The metal I used was aluminum. It was lighter than iron but still people wanted an even lighter one.

So, I had to cancel the order for the metal plate at the junkyard and make a new order for the plastic cover. After some negotiation I was able to strike a pretty cheap deal with the new manufacturing company. Since the casing was to be ordered, I upped the price for the robot.

It was also getting popular not so much but still enough for me to get a few hundred thousand dollars. I also sold about a hundred. I got the most from the restaurants, schools, university and from competition. Competition alone got me whooping $100,000. So, a few hundred thousand isn't that much. I also got a few tens of thousands as my freelancing projects. I earned most of it. I also won some hacking competitions. So, a few hundred thousand isn't much.

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It has been about a month since I rented myself a big abandoned warehouse for my company. Being abandoned, I got it for cheap.

And, I went to register my company. "Parker Industries".

I got a loan of 5 million dollars. We had to mortgage our house. Our house is near central New York, it is more than 5 million dollars. The area was also bigger, almost twice the regular house with front and back garden. So, the bank was ready to give us a loan. We also had to do some insurance in case the bank decided to do some shady things to our business.

After that, I bought a casing manufacturing machine, an assembling machine, and a supercomputer. Well, it was again second hand. And, of older models. I wanted to buy a mainframe but the system asked me to buy a super computer even if it is an old one. I didn't know why it would say so.

Nonetheless I agreed. So, Most of my money went on buying a supercomputer. I also had to renovate the place a bit. So, more than 100k went down, along with super computers and other machinery, I was down to about $500k. After making sure all the power supplies, store, security, raw material and... are in set, I was left with about $100k. I kept it with me in case I needed it.

Then, my own company started. "Ben Industries" May and Peter were with me. When they looked inside the company, they were driven senseless. The warehouse was bigger than 50 times the size of their house but there were only 4 or 5 machines in the entire warehouse. And, that too 5 million was gone.

May was dismayed. But she didn't say anything. Since I was young, I was always a good and sensible one. So, she believed in her man.

That day, we had a party at our house.

Next day, After sending Peter to the school, I went to work with May. I decided to give her a job. She was still unsure. But She also knew I made a few hundred thousand in one year alone. But, the loan had to be paid within one year.

I saw her dilemma. I went to her and held her hand. "Everything's gonna be alright. OK?" I slowly spoke to her and hugged her. She also hugged me back.

Then we started working. Just two people, in the big warehouse and just a few machines. I taught her how the casing machine works. I had already bought raw materials for it. Her job was just to see if the products were right or not. Even though the chances of failure are low , sometimes there might be some malfunctioning in the machine. So, after showing her a few of the products, how to close the machine in case of failures and a few other tips, I went to see other machines.

I had also bought all the other materials needed for my housekeeping robot. I named my robot house-keeping robot. It is an advanced version of Helping robots.

The size is a little bigger than its predecessors and function is high.

My robots are waterproof. This is a great advantage for a housekeeping robot. Its functions are, alarm, house logs, checking doors and windows, directing calls, helping cleaning, stories for children, talking, friendly, and cute. There are products for doing all this. But, how much is for security? How much for an alarm clock? How much for alexa? How much for a moving robot? How much for cleaning robots?

Mine isn't new but the combination of other technologies in one. So, overall it's cheaper. It's only $5,000 and in overall more than $4k is profit. It is an estimation considering the cases of failure of the robots and other things. So, for me to get $5M, I need to sell 1250 robots and I can get $5M.

There was a problem. How to ship the robots? I planned to find a dealer for my products. But, that week May and I worked our ass off. She didn't do much other than help me pack the robots. While I had to assemble the parts. In a day I could only assemble about 20 robots. That also included the overtime working.

"If you can make robots for helping in house why can't you make them to help yourself?", May questioned me. I was speechless. I didn't have an answer for her question. It's not that I didn't want to but I never thought about this. May laughed at me. "Our great Master Ben forgot about this huh?" She teased me and I ended up with a tomato face.

That week we completed 100 robots. Then, I got mail about getting an appointment with Bezos which I had applied for last week. I easily got it. Amazon isn't popular during this time. It just had branches in US Canada and a few branches in Europe.

Next day, I was in a suit. May made sure I looked perfect. I also brought a few robots with me. I then went to Amazon HQ in NYC. I was riding May's old car. After a few hours I'm in front of BoD on Amazon.

"Welcome young man. Don't be nervous. Please come." , one of the baldys spoke.

I went and sat on the chair.

"So young man, what do you have that makes you think you can make us invest in us?", the same baldly said.

"Sir, I'm not here to ask for investment. But just for dealerships. You will only do shipment and you will get 10%. Your job is just to come to the factory, take it and sell it. You will have to publicize and advertise as well. I will also have my own shops and branches around which will sell on their own.", I spoke with confidence.

They were flabbergasted. "How old are you?", one of the old women questioned me.

"I've celebrated 27 Christmases.", I replied. Once again they were sent senseless. None of those people were normal. At 27 years old they were also paving their own future. Working for it. But they also never dared to talk with this much confidence.

"What gives you confidence in your product? We won't sell products which are below average. Especially on technology. You need to ensure your product is up to the market. Even the price you've set is high. Not many people can afford it."

Then they showed me their projector. I started to show the advantages of the robot. How it works as ...… and so, financially, it is 60% cheaper. Also, in case of failures and other technical problems we can mend it for the customers in the cost price of mending.

"Can we see the demo?" Bezos asked me for a quick demo.

"Sure", then I unpacked my robot. I didn't know how to demonstrate the robot. Then I had an idea. I went to the table then started introducing the BoD members to the robots. After they were introduced, I threw all the pens and papers on the table to the ground. All the members were a little angry.

"Robots start working and solve in recommended settings", I ordered my robots.

"Yes boss.", they started working.

They first picked the pens then put them in some order. It was different than earlier. Then they started picking papers. They scanned the papers and looking at the names present they arranged all the papers. Then they put the papers in front of the BOD members according to their names. Then they put pens in order. One of Each type of pens was present in front of each member.

Then robots looked at the BoD members. "Seems the BoD members are dumbfounded. Do you want to know how awesome I am? Do I tell you a story? A song? A poem? Maybe I should call a therapist?"

My robot was mocking the people in the room. Well, I made it so it looks interesting for people.

I surveyed and I found People tend to love these kinds of things. They love when animals mock them, lick them, piss on them, hump them. People laugh at these things. I don't know how they can enjoy suck behavior.

Nonetheless who cares. I exploited this human behavior and added a mocking feature for robots. And, forgot to turn it off before coming.

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