Rent-a-God"God may forgive your Punya debt, but the investor never forgives missed projections."Vicky Subramaniam is broke, living off instant noodles, and desperate for a 10x Multiplier. His solution? Rent-a-God (RaG): a revolutionary app promising FaaS (Faith-as-a-Service), allowing users to book an instant Ganesha delivery or a virtual Shiva meditation session via their phone. It's pure, cynical satire-until a bizarrely misguided angel investor mistakes Vicky's pitch for genius and hands him $8 million.
The hustle is on. Vicky and his CTO, Gopal, launch the startup, scaling divinity with reckless abandon. But they soon discover that disrupting the spiritual market comes with catastrophic Canonical Integrity Faults (CIFs). Chaos ensues when the real stakeholders arrive: Shiva, Lakshmi, and a demanding Hanuman descend into Vicky's shabby Divine Fulfillment Center, claiming Intellectual Property rights and launching a hostile takeover.
The team is forced into a corporate merger with Heaven, navigating celestial HR, mandatory meditation clauses, and divine royalty demands. A sinister rival, PrayPal, backed by a shady NRI who claims to have Satan on his cap table, launches an all-out spiritual data war. The fight culminates in a televised Supreme Court battle, "Gods vs. Rent-a-God Pvt. Ltd., " a devastating data leak that exposes the nation's most embarrassing prayer requests, and a mandate from Krishna himself: fix the crumbling Indian Railway Reservation System.
Rent-a-God is a hilarious, sprawling satire where Silicon Valley jargon collides with cosmic reality. It's the epic tale of one man who lost his funding, his ambition, and his sanity, only to achieve Canonical Alignment-and sell his entire life's work to the government for one single rupee, earning the title of Chief Faith Officer of India (CFO). Because in the end, the ultimate exit strategy is not an IPO; it's an Epiphany.
Rent-a-God"God may forgive your Punya debt, but the investor never forgives missed projections."Vicky Subramaniam is broke, living off instant noodles, and desperate for a 10x Multiplier. His solution? Rent-a-God (RaG): a revolutionary app promising FaaS (Faith-as-a-Service), allowing users to book an instant Ganesha delivery or a virtual Shiva meditation session via their phone. It's pure, cynical satire-until a bizarrely misguided angel investor mistakes Vicky's pitch for genius and hands him $8 million.
The hustle is on. Vicky and his CTO, Gopal, launch the startup, scaling divinity with reckless abandon. But they soon discover that disrupting the spiritual market comes with catastrophic Canonical Integrity Faults (CIFs). Chaos ensues when the real stakeholders arrive: Shiva, Lakshmi, and a demanding Hanuman descend into Vicky's shabby Divine Fulfillment Center, claiming Intellectual Property rights and launching a hostile takeover.
The team is forced into a corporate merger with Heaven, navigating celestial HR, mandatory meditation clauses, and divine royalty demands. A sinister rival, PrayPal, backed by a shady NRI who claims to have Satan on his cap table, launches an all-out spiritual data war. The fight culminates in a televised Supreme Court battle, "Gods vs. Rent-a-God Pvt. Ltd., " a devastating data leak that exposes the nation's most embarrassing prayer requests, and a mandate from Krishna himself: fix the crumbling Indian Railway Reservation System.
Rent-a-God is a hilarious, sprawling satire where Silicon Valley jargon collides with cosmic reality. It's the epic tale of one man who lost his funding, his ambition, and his sanity, only to achieve Canonical Alignment-and sell his entire life's work to the government for one single rupee, earning the title of Chief Faith Officer of India (CFO). Because in the end, the ultimate exit strategy is not an IPO; it's an Epiphany.