Annie O’Mahony, the disillusioned former founder of a “FinTech” (financial technology) business, is a tech evangelist. Having seen her last firm, Millennial Credit, taken over by a high street bank, she’s looking for a fresh challenge: an industry where technology can be the cure-all.
She lands, quite unexpectedly, on the sex trade. With the help of her closest friend Veronica, Annie sets about building an Uber for prostitution – an app she names Pimple.
As her story progresses, and the app’s user-base begins to swell, dangerous syndicates of pimps begin to push back against it, in what quickly morphs into a violent struggle between the old and the new. The police wrestle with the righteousness of the app’s rise to prominence, while its founders are soon forced to contend with the morality of what they’ve created.
Pimple is the fictitious tale of the rise of this technology, and of the inevitable disruption that it brings about
About the Author :
Ryan left Newcastle University in 2013, graduating with a first-class BA in history. Soon after he became the editor of AltFi.com, now one of the leading news and analysis resources for ‘fintech’ in the UK. This role has given him a ringside seat from which to observe the rise of the alternative finance industry, which spans crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending, digital banking and robo-advice, and which is one of the hottest niches in disruptive technology globally.
When not writing, Ryan will likely be working on his podcast (Millennial Money Matters) or consuming or participating in some variety of sport. Pimple is his first novel.
