BEg2 chapter 4 odds & ends (3rd & last) Deep Archer

[Michael Bailey]

“The game is just a promotional freebie,” Vyrva frowning cute-apologetic.
“Our product is still totally DeepArcher?”
          “Which is  . . .”
         “Like ‘departure,’ only you pronounce it DeepArcher?”

“Zen thing,” Maxine guesses.

  “Weed thing. Just lately everybody’s been after the source code—the feds,
game companies, fuckin Microsoft? all have offers on the table? It’s the
security design—like nothing any of these people’ve ever seen, and it’s
makin them all crazy.”

“So, today you were out scouting your next round? Who’s the lucky VC this
time?”
  “Can you keep a secret?”
     “What I do. Professionally D and D.”


- I’m stumped. Discreet & ?



“Maybe,” Vyrva considers, “we should pinkie-swear?”
   Maxine patiently holding out her pinkie, hooking it with Vyrva’s and
obtaining eye contact, “Then again—”
[This is Vyrva having qualms?]

“Hey, if you can’t trust another Kugelblitz mom?”
[This is Maxine, “overcoming objections?”]

         So, with the usual caveats, Maxine keeps her other hand in her
pocket with fingers crossed as she solemnly pinkie-swears.

- oh, Maxine!


“I think we got a preempt today? Even back at the height of the tech
bubble, this would be awesome money? And it’s not a VC, it’s another tech
company? Big deal this year down in the Alley, hashslingrz?”

  Whoopwhoopwhoop.

[Danger, Will Robinson]

“Yeah . . . think I’ve . . . heard that name. That’s where you were today?”
 “All day down there. I’m still, like, vibrateen? He’s a bundle of energy,
that guy.”
  “Gabriel Ice. He’s made you a big offer to buy, what, this source code?”

 Ear to shoulder, one of those long West Coast shrugs, “He sure came up
with a impressive piece of change from someplace? Enough to rethink the
IPO? We already put the red herring on indefinite hold?”


 Red herring - preliminary prospectus

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/redherring.asp


(Skipping a bit)

“All they want is, there’s a part about getting somewhere without leaving a
trail.
            The content, they could care less. It isn’t about the
destination or even the trip,
            really, not for these jokers.”


         Maxine is much too familiar by now, even God forbid intimate, with
this cover-your-tracks
            attitude. Next it morphs from innocent greed into some
recognizable form of fraud.
            She wonders if anybody’s ever run a Beneish model on
hashslingrz, just to see how
            ritually slaughtered the public numbers are. Note to self—find
the time. “This DeepArcher,
            Vyrva, it’s what—a place?”


         “It’s a journey. Next time you’re over, the boys’ll give you a
demo.”


Beneish model -
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneishmodel.asp

The Beneish model is a mathematical model that uses financial ratios and
eight variables to identify whether a company has manipulated its earnings.
It is used as a tool to uncover financial fraud
<https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fraud.asp>.