If you haven’t figured it out yet, my boy Schwab here is a computer genius. He is a total geek, code wonk, ones-and-zeros savant. When he was sixteen, he created TipTap the App. Yep, that TipTap. The one that got everyone learning Morse code again just to send secret love notes. Every-freakinone downloaded it, and he made, like, a bajillion dollars! Then he drops out of life.

Six months later, we find him at an outdoor market selling cheese and eggs, but mostly bartering with other vendors for whatever he needs. For a hot minute, we thought he’d ditched tech altogether to become Farmer Schwab. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, nothing at all, but then we learned the truth.”

He grins. “Turns out our boy’s still knee-deep in code. Makes most of his cash trading online through a secret account. His big theory? The whole market’s controlled by algorithms, not people. He doesn’t study companies; he studies the programmers writing the bots. Genius, right?

“Him being rich doesn’t matter to us anyway,” Mikey continues. “We couldn’t care less about his stacks. But his cheddar does fund some epic adventures.”