The Truth About Love, Validation and Digital Romance

Nikki spent the next few days setting up meetings with companies.

She scoured the internet for potential investors that Joachim had missed and came up with a handful of potential investors.

They worked around the clock.

Joachim made the adjustments they had agreed on while Nikki arranged meetings and represented them at them.

They had formed a small company where she was the CEO, and he was the co-founder and engineer.

She learned how to pitch PlaynDate in the best way and read up on the companies they were going to meet.

In a month they met with five companies, two of which seemed cautiously positive.

In short, their days went by quickly.

They ate together, worked together, cleaned together – they did everything except sleep together, and that was it.

The job allowed him to keep his thoughts away from her, but as soon as he relaxed, the emotions came rushing in like lightning-fast jets and penetrated his pitiful body, leaving him defenseless.

Nikki was beaming, believing that they were only days away from getting an investment, while Joachim was more reserved in his optimism.

He had been more so before.

For Nikki, this was her first time.

But she had really made a difference when they presented.

The most important thing to convince a venture capitalist was that they would believe in the founders, and they believed in him, but they loved Nikki.

Her energy was pumping, and she had a way of charming even the most stubborn financiers.

So, in that way she had attracted two potential investors.

He watched her as she sat engrossed in a Netflix series in the evening after work.

He sat with his phone and made small adjustments.

At least that’s what he said.

But instead, he wrote.

Not every connection should begin with a swipe.