Ted Sullivan, an adopted boy who sprouted up on a modest farm in Oklahoma, is left penniless after the family livestock meat business goes under. Ted dreams of funneling the trauma he experienced in the slaughterhouse into a green billion-dollar company that will live forever. Meanwhile, Alec Young, a rich boy from Iowa whose family owns one of the largest producers of agricultural combines, endures verbal and physical assault from his father. Yet deep down, all Alec wants is to make his father proud by proving his competence. Ted and Alec met during a banking summer internship as college juniors and began a secret relationship. The more they talk about their individual goals for success, the more they believe they have what it takes to build an empire — together. They work their way up the corporate ladder at the prestigious investment bank Kauffman Schwartz and were in their reputation era before setting sail to build their company, the Tesla of tractors. But when Ted is overlooked for an Innovator Award, whereas Alec won, Ted sets his eyes on making the Forbes list of Top Wealth Advisors. Pitting him against his work nemesis. But as the young men manipulate and exploit their colleagues ideas and clients connections, they soon learn that they’re not the only ones scheming. Ted’s ruthlessness begins to unravel as he struggles to find investors for their company, while Alec finds himself a pawn in a cunning peer’s game. To build their company and the perfect life they’ve envisioned, they will need to overcome the slaughterhouse that is the corporate world — or their own ruthlessness might be what devours them.