"Sure.  But let's face it, anyone as awesome as you and the other contestants would be wasted on starting a liquor store; it wouldn't bring in more than you could make stripping at a hedge fund."

(Chad does briefly think about the win conditions for him and whether they actually rule out just starting a liquor store.)

Yep, they sure do! No way you're going to hit victory-level KPIs with a boring-ass liquor store! You will need, at the very least, a sexy new take on liquor stores to hit the required numbers!

"Oh, sure it could, eventually. We'd need to scale up. And meanwhile, we can keep things interesting by being tremendous sluts!"

She chokes out the last phrase with some effort, and then dramatically, clumsily, rips off her top.

Her lacy bra is pretty but not particularly revealing.

She's wide-eyed and panting a little.

That's fucking adorable.

Or she's the spy pretending to be that hesitant, in which case it's a different kind of adorable.

"You think we could scale a liquor store far enough to hit our KPIs by the end of the season?  Or is this more of an intro to a different straightforward way of making money?"

Chad will also reach out and lightly flick one of Jade's nipples while he's talking, just to see how she reacts to that.  He is a sadist on more than just a physical level, and if Jade is embarrassed and forcing herself to be slutty then Chad will of course want to make her task more interesting.

Jade squeaks and takes a step back, and then hastily takes a step forward again. She couldn't actually feel the flick much through the bra, it was just the suddenness of it.

"I've watched every episode of this show and all the other shows like it and I think it's so weird that people are always trying such harebrained things. Why don't they just do normal things that work? Maybe the producers pressure them? Maybe it's the way the show is cast? We could actually win this way!"

Jeannie feels up Chad to see if Jade's antics are working. Collecting data is essential.

Chad has rehearsed, extremely carefully, not flinching if a haremette makes a sudden move on his crotch.  If he flinched on recorded television, he'd have to move to another country out of shame.  Jeannie will find that Chad's lower Chad is stirring, but not fully hard.

To Jade:  "I figure that anything within the producer's rules is fair game, and sure we could keep it interesting by being sluts.  But literally starting a liquor store isn't going to meet their KPIs unless I'm missing something, or it's somehow an extremely high-traffic liquor store or has a big online presence?"

Jade pouts without actually meaning to. She really thought the sensible business plan idea was sensible!

Then she notices that she's pouting and tries to memorize exactly how it feels from inside in case she wants to do it again on purpose later.

"If you are finished I will speak?"

She waits for Jade's sad nod and then continues.

"I think you already know what kind of company I would like to build. I'd like to make an entirely new product or service. I am excited about the isekai kits. I realize they appeal to a niche audience but I have ideas for how to tailor the kits to individual circumstances and strengths, and this would help differentiate us from any copycats who tried to undercut us. I just want this product to exist, and it will be easier to build something with a team than by myself."

"But if you don't like that idea I would also support Sadism as a Service."

"Why Sadism as a Service but not, say, rebuilding 2014 OKCupid?"  Jeannie is at least posing as extremely analytic and, sure, if that's what she's useful for then Chad will take that and run with it.

"The original OKCupid was subsumed and subverted. I haven't looked into the details but I assume there were market forces at work there and not just stupidity. I expect we would run into the same problems they did."

"I like Sadism as a Service because I would like for that to exist. I would use it. And to my knowledge no one has tried it before."

"I think this team might be especially well-suited to build it."

"The original OKCupid was bought out by a bigger rival, the PlentyOfFish/Match.com empire, that didn't like the superior competition to their user-bilking operation.  A bunch of people say they miss it.  That's why it was one of my top candidates, in a sense it's a pre-validated idea and we'd already have a strong idea of what to build.  Does that change your view?"

"Why would the same thing not just happen again? Or would you welcome it if we were bought out?"

"I think I would find it disappointing to make a derivative service and then just sell it."

"Also, if that worked, then this is basically a replicable money printing machine, and that doesn't seem likely to work. What would stop it?"

Jeannie stops to think.

"Maybe if we attempt this we will find out what stops it. Maybe they just come and kneecap us."

"I think this is actually how ideal capitalism is supposed to work?  If some guy buys out 2014 OKCupid and ruins it so that they can have a crappy monopoly, what's supposed to happen is that somebody else goes off and builds 2014 OKCupid, and this happens again and again until Match.com runs out of money or somebody just refuses to sell.  That's the idealistic capitalistic concept of how Nature heals and why there aren't just monopolies everywhere -- it's supposed to cost Match too much money to buy out anyone who builds a rival, it's supposed to be free money for anyone who does."

"I don't think Match kneecaps anyone who tries it.  I think startup-capable founders just haven't gotten around to it.  But if they did come after us on a televised reality show that sure would be an interesting publicity-adventure for them and us."

"All right."

"I don't really want 2014 OKCupid for myself, I don't think I get anything I personally want out of that, but it is not up to me."

"Do you still want to pass on that blow job?"

"Up to you, I'm not going to fight you unless you're really bad at it and then that's a training issue.  You could always try it just so that your later rivals would have a slightly more difficult time seducing me.  Slightly."

Chad has obviously had a good dose of Hardafil in advance.

"How about this. After you talk to the other girls, if you are in danger of making a dumb decision, come back and I'll blow you out of it."

"Noted.  But, Jeannie, if you could just blow men out of terrible decisions, the world would be a different place and one in which there was a much easier solution to a lot of our problems."

"Unlike Pansy, I am not globally scalable."

Snrk.

"Yes, but if in general you could just blow men and have them not make dumb decisions, I think some other girls would join in on it.  Probably call it the Open Phellatio Project or something like that.  And if not, there's always Pansy."

After the break, we'll see how PANSY and LYCHEE try to influence CHAD!

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"Hi, Chad! I'm so excited to talk to you about the plans for the company!"

As Pansy enters the room, she's slipping something into the pocket of her microskirt.

"Oh. Me too. Definitely." She winks.

"Oh, I've been quite excited for a while now."