Dear Evil Engineer,
In May, I dropped out of my first year of business school. I don’t want to waste three of the best years of my life being lectured by fusty old academics who have never run real businesses of their own, especially when I can stream TED Talks and access Elon Musk’s Twitter feed without paying a penny.
No, instead I’m going to buy a black polo neck; launch a start-up of my own; disrupt an industry or two; take it public, and retire as a billionaire by 30.
I have spent the past few months thinking of ideas for my big product and I think I’ve got it at last. A bomb, except instead of blasting everything to pieces on detonation, it freezes everything in place – much less messy. I have already filed a trade mark application for its name (the ‘Carnot’) and tagline (‘Bombs without the Hot Air’) and secured an initial investment of £800,000 from a friend of my uncle’s. Now I just need to work out how to make it. Could you advise me on how to...