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Edward?

I need your opinion.

I like the first one.

I'm serious.

Dante wants a second dinner.

It's okay. It's my turn.

Ah...

Thanks, hon.

Move!

Is Edward sleeping?

You know my husband?

I know he's in the house.

That's right. He's probably called the cops by now.

If you stay quiet, I'll explain everything.

- Okay. - Sit.

What's this about?

Here, for your back.

Everything okay, honey?

Yeah.

It's fine.

I like the second better.

What?

With the two pictures.

Good.

That was my choice too.

But, they're so similar. You can barely tell them apart.

Debit, credit, and public transit card.

We can even use Bitcoin if you wanted,

which you probably don't.

Real time social parking that allows users to sell their street spaces to other users.

So, say you got this fantastic spot on Union,

and there's someone willing to pay premium for it.

Why just give it up for nothing?

Our app makes that market transaction happen.

It allows people to rent private spaces to the public.

Trade sweet spots regularly for a fee.

A portion of which goes to you guys.

And our platform has taken in the data

of every user in real time,

getting smarter by the minute.

We use differential data to prevent privacy leaks...

Down the road, in-car voice-activation.

I've got a meeting set with Volvo next month.

It's all coming together.

Show them.

It's as simple as tap and swipe.

Impressive, huh?

Yeah, guys, looks good.

Leena's cooking up a new splash page, so don't worry about that.

Questions, concerns?

Well, I'm getting some pressure from Mike about the schedule.

Oh, we can probably shave that down like five weeks.

Yeah, maybe four weeks.

Four weeks is tops.

Yeah. We're thinking Thursday.

But...

Hey, we had a handshake deal for months.

You know there is no way we can build that fast, Reed.

Yeah, well...

Mike has a guy who can.

Mike. Who?

- Gentlemen. - You fucker.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Come now. Let's talk it over with some tea.

Seth, I told you about it in confidence.

I was gonna hire you, man, come on.

I remember. I remember the lowball offer too.

And I remember thinking

why gig for a company who's hemorrhaging cash

when I get the same contract with my own team?

Fuck you!

Come on, stop.

Pull yourselves together, guys. It's still an open bid.

Fuck you! Fuck you!

Okay, you ready?

- Mmm-hmm. - And...

Pencils down.

Uh-uh. Just doing some skin shading

'cause that's the hardest part.

Are you giving me a beard again?

Ooh, just about there.

Okay, on three. One, two and three.

Oh, my God!

- What? - That's not even me.

It's perfectly to scale.

I measured it...

Oh, there is my inspiration now.

Oh, you don't have a fucking chance.

Sweet, sweet Carmen.

Looks just like my picture.

Yeah, you should show her that. I'm sure she would love it.

But, um, we were supposed to be drawing each other.

I'm not an artist.

Not all of us have had a gallery show.

You should be doing more than lining pages for parking apps.

Look at that. Look at that right there.

Even I know that that is really good.

Can you stop making that my screensaver? It's not funny.

That's from a long time ago when I was very deluded.

- You were not deluded. - Thank you.

Not one bit.

Ew. Are you flirting?

No, unless it's working.

No, you look like Hannibal Lecter

trying to take a shit.

- Yes. - Gross.

Cool.

You guys ready?

- Thank you. - Passing down.

Take this.

- Thank you. - Put that in your face.

All right, Carmen, may this black liquor sauce

steal our nerve in the face of defeat. Cheers.

Cheers.

God knows we're well-practiced.

I really thought this is the one.

Come on, guys. We weren't gonna cure cancer.

It was a parking app.

Yes, but if it worked,

we could have moved on to bigger shit.

I'll be happy just turning a profit.

Man, fuck profit.

I just wanna make enough money,

so I could, like, fucking blow up a million dollars.

You what?

I wanna fucking just blow up a million dollars.

Well, I told you that house you guys are renting had bad energy.

- Oh, Carmen, no. - What?

Zip it. Not tonight.

I'm just saying that old lady straight vanished two years ago.

What, the one who was there before? She didn't tell me about this.

No one noticed that first because by then she had become a hermit.

Police searched the house. All her stuff was there...

and she wasn't.

- Ignore her. - Uh... No.

Hey! And you need to stop watching ghost hunter shows. That's bullshit.

I'm not saying ghosts. I'm saying the place is cursed.

If anything is cursed, it's me.

Every company I touch fails spectacularly.

I supposed we could try for more funding.

I don't wanna think about it.

I mean, no app means there's no way I can pay rent.

Come on, let's just try and enjoy tonight.

We might not be together like this for much longer, so...

Have a drink with me.

No more drinks for you.

- Yeah, come on, let's have another shot. - No, water.

- No, let's have shots. - No, we both need water.

Josh, you want another shot?

- Josh, no. - Hurry up.

Would Elon Musk let a bit of failure get him down, huh?

You hear that?

You hear that?

That's another one of his rockets exploding.

But, you know, he won't sweat it and neither should we.

I can't believe you got tired of those blue eyes.

Hmm? Oh, God.

Don't shit where you eat.

I learned that the hard way.

We did not make a good couple.

Hey, Carmen.

You have a boyfriend.

Hey, look at Josh.

- Guys! Code Josh. - Yeah?

Oh, shit.

- What's happening? - Okay, so, he's been eyeing her since she came in.

Come on, Joshie.

I'm just saying it's off.

- I'm just saying he doesn't care. - Not okay.

Oh, no, there's her boyfriend.

Whoa, whoa. Why don't you fuck off, motherfucker?

- I'm gonna fuck you up. - Fuck you, man.

- Fuck off. - Fuck you.

I love how each time it's just a bit different.

- Can you just carry me? - No.

- I don't wanna... - Okay, cool.

- Hiya! Whee! - Oh shit!

Oh, shit.

Don't worry about it.

Oh, I thought she was really cute.

How was I supposed to know?

Well, she had a boyfriend.

They all have boyfriends, okay?

Until you get a few beers in there.

No!

The framework is doable.

Yeah, now we can build it.

I takes two weeks. We got until Thursday.

Yeah, it's not ideal, but if we dig in, we can put something together.

You wanna build it up. The interface will go back to Bootstrap.

Yeah, it's a UI, Leena. It's not gone in to MoMa.

- Uh, excuse me. - What?

- You heard me. - What do you think, Devin?

Robbie's got an opening in this company. I've been thinking...

I think I'm gonna take it.

Yeah, I think it's...

I think it's time to let this all go.

Phew. All right. I'm going for a run.

Okay, so what, after everything, you're just gonna bail?

Man, I'd do anything for a bid. I put all my savings into it.