Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 27

Chapter 27: The Young Executive

While Ethan was busy negotiating the sale of Drake Systems, Google’s programmers were sweating under the sharp, annoyed gaze of Amelia.

It had barely been a week since OmniTech handed them the demo of its cybersecurity software, Sentinel.

To call it groundbreaking would be a massive understatement.

The software was years ahead of anything currently available in the tech market—so much so that it wasn’t even funny.

The security fortress Google was once so proud of had been infiltrated within minutes of scanning. Every single vulnerability was laid bare.

Amelia, the one in charge of testing Sentinel’s capabilities, had been the first to realize what they were dealing with.

When the initial results came in, there was a collective silence across the team, a stunned disbelief that quickly turned into a scramble.

Sentinel hadn’t just outperformed their internal tools, it had obliterated them. Every exploit, every single hidden weakness, every backdoor that even their most seasoned engineers had overlooked was quickly exposed.

This quickly made it to the higher-ups, and within forty-eight hours, an emergency board meeting was called

It was supposed to be a strategic review, but it turned into a panic-fueled debate as soon as the capabilities of the demo version was made known.

Since the two founders couldn’t make it, the decision was left entirely to the board and the CEO, and the board had gotten greedy, wanting Sentinel for themselves.

"How about we buy it outright?" One executive suggested.

"We don’t even know if they’ll sell," another countered. "They didn’t give us the full version after all, just a demo."

"Then reverse-engineer it," Mr. Grayson muttered, after being quiet for a while. "We have the talent. Just recreate it and move forward."

"If this is just a demo, then imagine what the full product is capable of," Mrs Patel denied his suggestion "We should be negotiating the partnership that OmniTech is already offering, not plan corporate theft."

Grayson scoffed. "You’re being naïve. This is business. If we allow OmniTech to officially release Sentinel, we’re handing them the keys to the kingdom."

He leaned forward, his tone sharp and calculated. "Every government agency, every Fortune 500 company and every major tech firm will line up for it. We’ll lose market dominance in cybersecurity overnight."

A quiet tension fell over the room.

"He’s not wrong," another board member added reluctantly. "If Sentinel goes public, we won’t be able to compete. Not with our current infrastructure."

One of the younger executives cleared his throat. "Look, we’re just trying to protect our assets. If Sentinel goes to a competitor, it could wipe out our entire cybersecurity arm and it’d cost us millions of dollars worth of contracts."

By this time, Google had already launched it’s Google Cloud Platform and was almost closing a multi-million dollar deal with the government, thanks to this young executive’s connections.

If a better software hit the market first, especially one as polished and devastatingly effective as Sentinel, that deal would vanish overnight.

"If the government gets a whiff of this software," the younger executive continued, "they’ll pull the plug on us faster than you can blink."

The executive leaned back as soon as he finished his words, his words seemed to have fully convinced all the other board members, well except Mrs. Patel who was clearly against this.

Amelia frowned, she always hated meetings like these because she could practically taste the greed in the air. And now, sitting smugly across the table, was the person who epitomized it.

Nathaniel Langley.

He leaned back in his chair, adjusting the cuff of his tailored navy suit with the same confidence he had displayed since the meeting began. Barely thirty, yet already richer than most of the people in the room combined.

Son of General Victor Langley, an old war dog turned political heavyweight, and now, thanks to a silent acquisition spree, one of Google’s newest and most influential private shareholders.

He had no real tech background or any previous record of being involved in a tech company, heck, even his company was not concerned with tech and yet, here he was.

"Let’s be realistic," Nathaniel said, breaking the silence that followed his warning. "This OmniTech person is playing a dangerous game. He wants us under his fingers when we don’t even know who he is."

"Because he hasn’t made himself public yet," Amelia muttered, barely hiding her annoyance.

Nathaniel smiled faintly. "Exactly. And you’re okay trusting someone like that with our infrastructure? With national security contracts on the line?"

"I’m not okay with corporate theft either," she snapped.

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