ACT 1. Confessions of a former CMO @ ex-Billionaire.org
I Manipulated Everything—Even You. This is the Confession from the Former CMO of Disgracebook
CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-BILLIONAIRE (AND CMO)
ACT 1: THE DISCLAIMER
We stopped pretending long ago that the stories we tell ourselves are true.
What you’re about to experience is true.
(ish.)
We present it as fiction, because let’s be honest—you wouldn’t believe us if we told you it was real. This is a work of emergent fiction. Whether it becomes fact or stays fantasy depends on two things:
When you read it.
If you believe it could come true.
This story was pieced together from on-camera interviews with ex-billionaires, failed founders, Songa musicians, movement therapists, baristas, rogue A.I. coders, and at least one rideshare driver named Duuntu Uthers Hart. It includes off-the-record confessions, unsent emails, legal depositions, Instagram voice memos, congressional testimonies, and first-person accounts too embarrassing to be remembered sober.
All identifying details have been carefully disguised to protect the innocent.
And the guilty.*
WHAT IS THIS?
Welcome to Confessions of an Ex-Billionaire (and CMO)—a serialized, semi-fictional exposé from the man who helped break the internet, then tried to use the same tricks to fix what he broke.
I’m Forbes Nash Jr.
Recovering Chief Manipulation Officer at a company you probably still use. (I call it Disgracebook. You call it whatever your screen says.)
In another life, I wrote the algorithms that turned friends into followers, followers into fanatics, and attention into currency. I built the architecture for a machine that could simulate love, hijack your empathy, and reward your outrage.
It made me rich. Like 3-commas rich. Then it made me numb. Then it made me alone.
Now I’m telling everything.
We’re exposing every psychological, technological, legal, emotional, and spiritual manipulation in the book—the same ones I helped invent. The ones that rewired society and disconnected you from yourself. The ones that made your niece addicted to doomscrolling and made Thanksgiving awkward with your uncle.
We’re using them to reconnect you. To rebuild what was lost.
Not with nostalgia. With better software. With stories. With song.
With social media that actually makes you more social.
This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a plot.
A plot to save the soul of business.
(With music.)
And yes—it’s a screenplay.
Because life is a stage.
Write your character in any moment.
So the algorithms don’t do it for you.
If you stay with us, here’s what you'll witness:
Secrets unveiled by the people who built the machine—and then turned against it.
A ragtag coalition of healing capitalists, artists, economists, and renegade musicians banding together to take down the system from the inside.
A cinematic chronicle of how it all went down—complete with congressional showdowns, viral revolutions, love songs turned manifestos, and the world's first protest musical staged inside a recording studio.
Strategies once used to manipulate your mind, now used to set it free.
Actual tools: leaked transcripts, social scripts, digital tax codes, policy drafts wrapped in poetry.
A new kind of software—not for your phone, but for your soul.
And yes… possibly a juice box.
(Organic. With pulp. Because honest stories should leave a little texture.)
I’m not a billionaire anymore. Not even close. But I’ve met the ones who stayed sane after losing their third comma.
They didn’t go broke.
They just redefined wealth.
They invested in the starving artists around them, challenged their loved ones to turn life into art, and kept “only” $999,999,999 for themselves.
If that sounds ridiculous—good.
It means you’re still paying attention.
Let’s laugh. Possibly cry.
Let’s tell a better story.
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Please meet and follow some of my collaborators on Substack:
Musical producer
at The “Happy” Studio who is creating novel music models for an AI age, with soul.My brother
at The Millionaire’s Campfire a money mover writing about Culture, Capitalism, Community and Coming Home.- , the screenwriter who’s been documenting .
