Jakob Scott aka Jake, grew up in Berlin Germany, his father is Elias and his Mother is Mia, he was born at the Martin Luther Hospital in Berlin in 1990.
He grew up as everyone other kid, he was loved by his family, went to a public school, made friends, all the things that a normal boy would have, except his father was both the majority shareholder and the CEO of one of the worlds most popular weapons manufacturers, it was called Scott & Co, built by him and a loan from the bank, it took him over 50 years to get to where it is now, he spent many days at the office and took on lots of overtime when it was just made, but ever since he had a son called Jakob he stopped working overtime and tried to make as much time to spend with his son, his company continued growing, he owns a total of 40% of the shares with his wife owning 15% and he gave his son 10% when he was born, so overall they had a total of 65% which considering the size of the company is rarely seen as they would usually need several cash injections to get the company started if they have a cash flow problem and they need to pay suppliers they are able to sell off shares for money, but Scott & Co hasn't really had money problems, they don't take on any orders they can't fullfil and they make smart contracts, such as only paying suppliers after the weapons have sold or upon delivery of the raw materials, this way a supplier is unable to take the money and run, which is not commonly seen but also not rare, somewhat uncommon, as it has happened to many people.
Jakob had spent a considerable amount of his time after high school in the company, he was groomed by his father to take over the CEO position for when he retires, he went to public school so he learns to treat everyone equally compared to some of his friends who went to private school and don't consider everyone as equal, almost as if they have a superiority complex.
Jakob used all his spare time to go over the accounts, it was important that all the financials for the company were in order, if not and they get audited then it would be disastrous, they could be fined and if news got out the current stockholders would lose faith then they would have to find somewhere to get the money to pay them, after all, although companies can be worth billions they hardly ever have billions available in liquid assets meaning they wouldn't be able to pay so they would either have to get a loan, which banks may not provide, or sell off fixed assets which would decrease the amount of profit they could make in the long run.
He would check and check again, he was told it was unhealthy for him by his father but he didn't really listen, he had seen many families go bankrupt this way and he wanted to prevent it happening to his at all costs.
He did this for several years, use what spare time he had to look over the accounts until his dad forced him to stop, he was made to go to college, but instead of doing something productive with his life in college he didn't do anything, he would sit in lectures and then wait for his dad to pay for his certificates at the end of the year, despite not actually knowing what subject he was taking, he was given textbooks by teachers to fill out and they would end up stuffed in a bag and left there until he returned home, whereupon entering his bedroom he would put them on a shelf and leave them there.
The teachers didn't dare to ask him for his textbooks, they could tell he wouldn't fill them out because he didn't listen in any of the lessons and they knew his family background because they had access to student files and the last thing they want is to get on the bad side of the Scott family, they had links to various countries militaries and no one wants to deal with that.
That was until he met Ronan, he had been sitting with his 2 'minions' at the back of the lecture hall when he noticed someone walking up to him.
'Another person who probably wants to befriend me for my father's connections.' That was the first thing that came into Jakes mind, it has been like this for a while, people always trying to get close to him for his father, although not many people knew about Jake it was completely different for the upper class, almost everyone knew about Jake, the upper class is always like this, they try to find someone with a higher social status than them and try to latch onto them for connections or money, it has been this way for many years, only a small selection of people would make friends with the poor, or at least this is the way Jake sees things, he could've had a normal life, but the teachers at his public school ruined that for him, on the 2nd day at that school someone tried to bully him, the next day he was expelled and no one talked to him, the teachers weren't even bothered about what he does so he passed his exceptionally bland high school life in an exceptionally bland way, doing nothing.
Ronan looked at him with a suspicious gaze, but Jake paid no heed, he just watched as he walked towards him and sat down.
Jake had a fun time for once, although he couldn't really care less about the textbooks or the money, seeing the hard-working individual in front of him made him think back to the days when he would spend day after day working on the accounts, he had found many people embezzling from the company funds, that made him both happy and proud, his father also gave him his praise but that didn't matter, he had his fathers love from an early age and unlike many other powerful and rich families his didn't have several mistresses clinging onto his father.
Jake made a deal with Ronan $100 per textbook and he would do this for however long he wanted.
After taking his first completed textbook home he just put it back on the shelf, he had no interest in handing them in, he just wanted to see how far this interesting person would go, if he would burn out and stop or if he had the will to go on, then again people motivated by money tend to last longer than those motivated by interest.
Jake continue doing nothing, ever since he stopped looking at the accounts he had nothing to do, although Ronan was interesting he wasn't someone who would take up all the spare time he had, he had to find something that would at least take up a part of his time.
Jake spent several hours looking for things to do, he had many hobbies, playing LoL, CSGO, shooting guns, building and dismantling guns, he had even considered working part-time in the factory building guns for his father's company, but nothing really peaked his interest, in his mind these were all mundane things to do.
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2 hours later and Jake had finally found something, he was going to vet all the people in the top management in his dad's company, it would take a considerable amount of time and he could make some more connections.
He had to download various software and learn various new skills in order to get everything, he started his computer up and begun to learn a new skill, hacking, he had to learn many skills but one he didn't know was how to hack, he would have to spend several months learning how to hack, although he didn't really have to as he was the son of one of the richest people in the world and people tend to listen to money a lot so any trouble he would in could easily be solved by his father.
Jake had contacted one of his 'friends' Alan, Alan was British and part of the aristocracy, but he was different to them in that he didn't like to follow the rules, he preferred to do many things which the aristocracy would see as blasphemous, he was a hacker, specifically a 'white hat hacker' meaning that what he was doing was ethical, doing it for security reasons, to spot vulnerabilities, etc.
"Hey Alan, teach me how to hack alright?" Jake was a straight forward person, he didn't want to beat around the bush especially with his friends.
"You sure? Your father would probably kill you if he found out, you know that right?" Alan replied.
"And why would he do that?" Jake asked.
"Oh, I don't know, probably because he thinks that I'm a bad influence and you know, because I am." Alan retorted, although they both knew the reason why it was because Jake had once let Alan into the companies servers, he had found several people embezzling, or at least what he thought was several people embezzling but in reality was one higher up embezzling but doing it through various peoples accounts, he didn't know how to trace the money without sufficient permissions from the various staff members so he let Alan take a little peek at the information, he helped him solve the problem, but that wasn't before getting caught by his father in the server room, the guard outside had phoned his boss, who then passed it up the line until it reached his father, his father was pissed.
He didn't really care about the fact that he let Alan in, he was pissed about the fact that he let Alan look at all his employee's financial information if it wasn't for Alan being a friend of Jake he would've been even more pissed as that person could've stolen all the financial information from the companies employees, luckily enough Elias had made sure that all the information was being kept separate, so they could only access the financial information of the employees and not anything more than that.
"Okay, I'll come to you." Alan said.
"Sure, tell me when and where." Jake replied.
After that they made plans, Alan would come to Jake and then teach him hacking, in exchange Jake would owe Alan a favour, and a favour from the Scott family is worth far more than teaching someone to hack and they both knew it.
Several days later and they had met, Jake had his second textbook in his bag, he had just exchanged it with Ronan and now he was meeting up with Alan.
"So what do you want to do?" Alan wasn't an all work no fun type of person, quite the opposite actually, he was more of an all fun no work type of person.
But they both had a different meaning for the word fun, Alan found it fun to hack stuff, he would tell them afterwards so that they can fix it, but it doesn't mean that it didn't piss people and companies off in the process.
They arrived at the Scott family home, both of Jakes parents were out working so they just went upstairs to Jake bedroom before starting up 2 computers.