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At exactly 8:17 on a Friday night, a woman named Sloane Mercer lifted her glass and poured an entire Coke over my head while more than forty thousand people watched online. Her friend Evan Caldwell had bet her five hundred dollars that she could make the “big waitress” jump, and when the ice hit my shoulder, they laughed like I was part of the entertainment. What neither of them knew was that a man they desperately needed for a billion-dollar business deal was already pulling into the parking lot.