YUGE UPDATE - App Size Reduced by 75%: Shifted over 220MB of raw gameplay and splash video assets out of the app bundle into a dynamic CDN and pre-caching pipeline, saving precious storage space on your device. - Nemesis AI Attack System: Rival competitors can now launch targeted corporate attacks mid-game, including Talent Poaching, PR Smear campaigns, Patent Trolls, and Market Attacks based on their distinct business personalities. - Monday Threat Briefing: Mitigate rival events directly in your Monday morning standup. Counter their offers, pay off trolls, or take them to court with real AP/cash stakes before the week proceeds. - VC Pitch Balances: Pitching VCs now scales in difficulty per funding round completed, increasing base skepticism by +8% per round. - Card Fatigue: Playing the same pitch card title 3+ times in a single battle triggers staleness, reducing impact by 25%. - Active Seed Sprint Leaderboard: Enabled global tracking and in-app tab selectors for the tactical Seed Sprint mode alongside the All-Time board. - Slow Connection Optimization: Added progress indicator loading spinners and extended safety timeouts for video cutscenes, ensuring the game stays responsive and playable even on slower networks. - Bank Loan Slider Fix: Standardized vertical gesture conflicts so sliding the loan amount no longer accidentally closes the sheet on iOS devices.

What's New in Version 1.30 - Historical Insights Archive: Overhauled the Forecast App Insights tab into a retro 8.3 master-detail directory browser (C:\FORECAST\INSIGHTS\*.*). - Multi-Cycle Reports: Added support for weekly insights, monthly roundups, quarterly outlooks, and yearly audits, complete with dynamic interval badge colors and retro document icons. - Live Server Ticker: Implemented a dynamic neon-graded bulletin ticker card on the main system login screen displaying the latest active report from the cloud. - New Hype Manager: Unlocked He-he Man, the community Hype Manager specializing in meme marketing and viral posting to generate massive early-stage buzz (including custom cards: Buy Meme Domain, Create Viral Video, and Handcrafted Artisan Memes). - Firestore Live Integration: Native linking of Firebase Firestore packages into the main app target for robust, background live-stream syncing. - Cloud Sync Robustness: Implemented manual dictionary parsing in the Insights engine to allow partial reports (like Week 22) lacking metadata to decode successfully based on their document ID. - Founder's Journal Sync: Added profile data migration logic to automatically import and seed career statistics and Hall of Fame high scores from local saves for premium users on launch. - Warning Sweep: Resolved duplicate resource bundle compilation warnings and unused variable warnings in the retro telemetry Sparkline charts. - Game Center Sync: Removed the bundle identifier prefix from achievements to align with the raw IDs (unicorn, garage_guru, etc.) registered in App Store Connect, resolving the Game Center unlock issue. Added detailed error diagnostics for reporting callbacks.

What's New in Version 1.29: New Mode: Seed Sprint: Selectable directly from the virtual OS desktop login. Skip the setup wizard and jump straight into a high-stakes, 15-week venture-backed startup run. VC Pitch Credibility Gating: Added strategic rules to classic and single-player modes. Players must build real credibility (securing a product MVP, recruiting a minimal specialist team, and raising valuation above $250,000) before VCs will take pitch meetings, resolving the instant-victory loophole. Outcome Polishing: Successful VC pitch wins are recorded under the new .secured category rather than retiring, allowing dedicated career telemetry tracking. Tension Mechanics: Added a slow-flashing visual countdown timer for Seed Sprint games to raise stakes in the final weeks of a run. Sensory Rewards & Re-Rolls: Added AdMob rewarded video VC Re-Roll features (vc_reroll) to re-pitch VCs on the fly. Orientation Locking: Locked all views to standard portrait orientation to ensure consistent layout scaling. Sharing Overlays: Fixed missing VC portraits in social card sharing views.

What's New in 1.28 - VC Pitch Victory Cards: Share highly-curated graphical mockups of your funding rounds featuring CEO and investor portraits, neon-graded metrics, and deal terms. - Branded Social Feed Sharing: Capture your in-game social feed updates as retro-chic mockup cards with active startup name watermarks and verified stamps. - Visual Refinements: Added descriptive equity details using pie slice indicators to clarify deal structures. - Global App Store Integration: Appends region-free, clickable store links to all textual shares for seamless player acquisition. - New Product Genre: Added 'Agentic B2B SaaS' sector with custom names, risk profiles, and market dynamics.

What's New in v1.27 Introducing Pexis Back — The First Community CEO Designed and commissioned by the Silly Con Valley community, Pexis Back is the game's first ever player-backed CEO. A technical founder who lets the code do the talking: +30% Dev Speed, +20% Quality — but -20% Hype (the code speaks louder). Unlock at Angel Investor tier. The IPO Victory Screen is Fixed! Winning the final NYSE battle and tapping Continue now immediately plays your victory cinematic. No more white screen. This was the biggest bug in the game and it's gone for good. iCloud Sync Your game saves now travel with you. Start a run on your iPhone, continue it on your iPad — seamlessly. IPO Roadshow Cinematics The London, Hong Kong, and New York roadshow battles now feature immersive intro, win, and loss cinematic videos. The road to IPO has never felt this epic. Game Center — Leaderboard Fixed A slower IPO run can no longer overwrite your personal best speedrun time. Your fastest run is always protected. Also: if you earned achievements before linking Game Center, they will now automatically sync. Juicy Button Feedback Every button in the game now has satisfying haptic feedback and a pop animation. Hostile Takeover Confirmation Crushing a competitor now shows a proper victory screen. Feel the power. Under the Hood Massive design system cleanup — unified fonts, colors, window styles, and spacing across the entire app. The game looks and feels more polished everywhere.

Your startup now has a real desktop. System Preferences is here. Choose your wallpaper, enable the premium Golden Window Frame, and fine-tune your audio — all without leaving your game. Six wallpaper styles are available for everyone. Premium subscribers unlock the golden frame that makes the whole desktop feel like it belongs in a Silicon Valley penthouse. Every desktop application — CEO Office, Whatscrap, Market Browser, Founder's Journal, Achievements — has been polished to match the same visual standard. Less visual clutter. More focus on the hustle. Previous updates included: — 15 CEO archetypes now fully active. Your archetype affects quality, hype, burn rate, team loyalty, and rival aggression. The Phantom plays invisible. The Speedrunner races the clock. The Cult Leader's team never quits. Pick wisely. — Game Center integration. Three global leaderboards (All-Time Score, Fastest IPO, Peak Valuation) and 14 achievements — five of them hidden. Can you find them all? — Prestige mode. Finish a run and start again harder. Competitors scale up with every IPO you've notched.

Version 1.24 CEO archetypes now have real gameplay effects. Previously each archetype's perks were descriptive only — this update wires all of them into the simulation engine. Engineers and Technical Founders apply a quality multiplier at product launch. Influencers and Celebrity CEOs apply a hype multiplier. The Burner now receives six action points per week instead of three. GrowthHackers lose hype at half the standard decay rate without a Hype Officer. CultLeaders retain their entire team regardless of morale. PivotKings gain a valuation boost on every successful product pivot. Phantom CEOs are fully undetectable — rival AI cannot trigger events against them. Speedrunners face a hard 26-week deadline with a game-ending time limit. Competitor difficulty now scales with your prestige tier. Each completed IPO adds 20 percent to competitor base growth rates, making every new run meaningfully harder than the last. Campus office upgrade threshold reduced from 500 million to 250 million. Hype decay without a Hype Officer halved. Game Center is now fully integrated. Three leaderboards are live: All-Time Score, Fastest IPO, and Peak Valuation. Scores are calculated using a composite formula that applies prestige bonuses and speed bonuses — an IPO completed within 26 weeks doubles your final score. Scores submit automatically at the end of every run, including bankruptcy. Fourteen achievements are available in Game Center. Three achievements track live progress before unlocking: Unicorn Status (reach one billion dollar valuation), Garage Guru (upgrade your office), and Full House (hire both a CTO and Hype Officer). Five achievements are hidden and reveal themselves only upon completion. An in-app leaderboard shows the top 50 global entries with live rank, player alias, and score without leaving the app. Buttons to open the native Game Center view are available from the end-game screen after an IPO win. Additional fixes: competitor buyout double-trigger resolved, dead competitors no longer surface as acquisition targets, hostile takeover legal fees now scale to the target valuation, marketing stunt cash guard corrected.

What's New in Version 1.23 We've been hard at work synergizing our paradigms to bring you a huge quality-of-life update. Here’s what’s rolling out to your retro desktop in this release: Aesthetic Upgrade New App Icon! We’ve polished our pixels and shipped a brand new, ultra-retro app icon that looks perfectly at home next to your 90s shareware and spreadsheet apps. Cap Table & Equity Overhauls Smarter Stock Buybacks: Want your company back? The Cap Table buyback system has been overhauled with a dynamic, scaling cost curve. Buying back stock now accurately siphons shares away from your existing VCs. Dilution Guardrails: Added a stark warning to the VC Pitch screen. Before you accept a deal that dilutes your personal equity below the dangerous 5% threshold, we'll make sure you actually mean it. Ousted! Taking a deal that drops your total equity to 0% now results in a brutal, very real "Game Over." You can't be a CEO if you don't own the company. Pitch Battle Improvements Fully Dealt Hands: Fixed a stubborn UI bug where you would sometimes jump into a Pitch Battle against a VC and your cards wouldn't draw correctly. True Costs: Squashed a decimal formatting error on the Victory screen that was making it look like VCs took 0.3% when they actually took 30%. The math was right, but the string was lying. Now you'll see the exact dent they put in your Cap Table. ChadGDP & UI Polish ChadGDP's Helpful Nudges: Your favorite AI wealth sherpa, ChadGDP, will now occasionally pop up to remind you that you can permanently disable ads by picking up the Series A Premium pack directly from the Venture Mall. Seamless Mornings: Harmonized the UI alignment between your Morning Standups and the main clock-in dashboard so the screen doesn't jitter anymore. Update now, stay profitable, and keep your burn rate low!

We heard your feedback. We have now updated the onboarding process to help you get into the startup mentality. Character selection has also got a new shiny coat that makes character selection so much cooler. We also adjusted the amount of full screen ad's, as those were annoying to us also :D

Adjusted the parody levels and added a disclaimer in the credits part.

Bug fixes and ad optimisation.

We updated our ad engine and didn’t touch any of your favourite features.