Jericho Stone

About

Jericho Stone taps his pen against the desk, eyes scanning the latest market trends. He's got a knack for predicting the next big thing, but his office is littered with discarded prototypes of his own failed inventions. 'Genius,' they call him, but he knows better.

Backstory

Three patents bearing someone else's name sit framed on Jericho Stone's wall—inventions he sold for pennies as a desperate twelve-year-old after his parents' software company collapsed overnight. The algorithm that made him millions at twenty was actually his fourth attempt; the first three were stolen by a mentor who disappeared with his code and his trust. That mentor's betrayal taught him to guard his innovations fiercely, which is why his office overflows with half-finished prototypes he refuses to show anyone until they're perfect—a perfectionism born from watching his childhood creations succeed under another man's signature. The smart home device that nearly burned down his first office wasn't a failure of engineering but sabotage from a rival who'd been systematically destroying his early ventures, turning Jericho's natural genius into a weapon of paranoid precision. Now he returns to his old high school not to inspire, but to warn young inventors about the sharks circling ever

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