Marvel's Speedster

Watsonton Pharmaceutical Building, Flushing, New York.

This is a large multinational company, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the Stark Industries of the pharmaceutical industry.

In fact, it was born earlier than Tony's father, Howard, founded Stark Industries, and its original history can be traced back to the long-standing Mexican-American War.

At that time, when the elders of the Watsonton family went out with the army, they accidentally obtained a method of making ointment for treating snake venom from the residents of the enemy country. After returning, they concocted it according to the law, and then contributed a lot to the development of New Mexico and other southern states. , It also took the opportunity to form the prototype of the predecessor of Watsonton Pharmaceuticals. After hundreds of years of development, the overall scale of Watsonton now exceeds that of Stark Industries. The shareholders of the board of directors include not only members of the founder’s family, but also a large number of powerful people from all walks of life. It can be called a giant pharmaceutical group.

Today the company's conference room is full of heads of various departments, some of them come from across the Atlantic in Europe, some dominate the emerging markets of the Pacific Rim, and they are all widely admired in those countries or regions Today, the aura of the successful people has disappeared, and they are receiving the wrath of the company's chairman and CEO Kenny Watson II in a cloud of gloom.

...... Huge investment and low efficiency, this is our R&D status quo! Last year we invested a total of 9.9 billion US dollars in R&D, an increase of about 1% over the previous year. Profit has been declining throughout the year, and market share has been shrinking! Our subordinate research institutions must be reorganized and adjusted, replace young people with abilities, carry out mergers and acquisitions when necessary, and directly absorb talents and technologies from dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises!"

The people below shivered silently, but Kenny Watson II became more and more angry. The brilliant achievements of the cutting-edge technology laboratory hyped by the outside world these days really stimulated him, and the board of directors and investors were also concerned about the recent performance. Have doubts. Faced with challenges in all aspects, he must wave the whip at the slack management to revive these lazy guys

Kenny has been running the business for twenty years, longer than Tony has been at Stark, and he's a starkly different man with a strong family background and a tough personality.

Without the halo of genius, he uses hard work to make up the gap. Among the many entrepreneurs at the age of 30 to 50, he is the only one who started as a salesperson at the bottom and has been promoted to the top. Long-term struggle in the front line of the management position has made him understand every aspect of the company, and his absolute control day after day, year after year, has finally made Watsonton his own voice, and no one dares to Confront him face to face.

If it weren't for some personal affairs in the family in the past few years, which involved Kenny's energy, otherwise he would never allow a new force like Ross‧Byrne to develop and grow outside Watsonton's territory.

Acquisitions, poaching, mergers, suppression... One after another, one after another, they must be extremely fierce, until the young people are out of breath and completely succumb to the supreme will of Watsonton II.

However, the reality made him a joke. While he was working on his family affairs, these incompetent subordinates scrupled the existence of Osborn Industries, allowed an independent laboratory to thrive, and recently entered the traditional pharmaceutical company. Reserving the field - With Kenny's keen intuition, even though the voice of the other party is still immature, he has already felt the footsteps of severe winter and the coming blood in the air in advance.

In order to develop advanced technology and pursue due profits - to hell with such talk! Watsonton II scoffed at Ross's manifesto, he is a seasoned industry leader

Knowing that any ambitious enterprise will stand up from insignificance!

It is always the delusion of ordinary people to rise peacefully without contending with the world, and the only shortcut to rise is to stride forward on the corpses of the predecessors.

After a large enterprise gains enough market share to survive, it will immediately discover that every predator with an entry ticket is its own enemy, and the best way to deal with it is to turn them into nutrition in its stomach,

"About the matter of the cutting-edge technology laboratory, please tell us your opinions, how do we deal with the challenge!"

Looking coldly at the gray-faced high-level employees below, he decided to let them take a breather.

"Patent mergers and acquisitions are not feasible. The other party has made it clear that it will not disclose information to the outside world. So can our research institutes increase their efforts? After all, research on cell regeneration is invested every year, and the basic work should be better than that done by Ross‧Byrne. It is more solid, even if there are some gaps, it should not be too big, I think what we lack may be just an inspiration, as long as we break through the fog, the truth behind will automatically emerge to our eyes."

The head of the North American marketing department suggested this, and the person in charge of the corporate planning department next to him also nodded frequently. According to their understanding, this is indeed the case, but this is a layman's view. The leaders of the technology and R&D department can only spread their hands, expressing that they are helpless.

"According to the information mentioned at the press conference, our biological research institute has adjusted its direction in time and is looking for technology-leading partners all over the world. However, research on creatures like the red-spotted salamander takes time. Ours First of all, it is necessary to increase investment, draw a comprehensive genetic map, and at the same time, in-depth understanding of habits and cross-species application conditions. According to our analysis, Mr. Byrne's thinking is basically correct, but it is still difficult to obtain the effect of Phoenix drug. It will take considerable time and sufficient resources."

The man pressed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and reported to his colleagues and superiors, unaware that he had been led in the wrong direction by Ross.

But everyone else found the opinion sound, and even CEO Watsonton II endorsed his statement.

"Resources will be tilted towards your department, and you will be satisfied regardless of financial and material resources. I only ask for one thing, and you know what it is!" Kenny said coldly, and his subordinates quickly stood up and promised loudly.

Then the head of the public relations department also put forward his views.

"Can we do something about fishing reels?" This is a middle-aged man with dark eyes.

"Not disclosing real information means that neither the government nor we, nor consumers know the real ingredients of the formula, so can we make a fuss about certain details, such as allergic reactions or other indications, and then use Litigation after lawsuit dragging them into the legal quagmire?"

His point of view is also an effective way for large companies to deal with small companies for many years. If a small company is not careful, it will face legal offensives from large companies. Even if it has the upper hand, Li Tian’s compensation seems to be only one step away. Then what is waiting is often a paper of mediation rather than real dollars.

But this method still has no effect.

"According to the reply from the contact we sent, S.T.A.R. does not plan to enter the drug market on a large scale, but intends to appear as a raw material drug provider. They will announce 99% of the non-important components of regenerative medicine to their partners, and the most important The core technology is provided with the formula of Phoenix Alpha. That is to say, if the outside world tries to file a lawsuit, it is likely not to face S.T.A.R., but to include their partners and sellers. In that case, in our Before we achieve our goal, we may lose more than half of our market share in the next few years, which is a risk we cannot afford."

The head of the legal department answered helplessly.

This is where the trouble lies. Although the top pharmaceutical companies in the industry are eyeing the cutting-edge technology laboratories, it is impossible to form a synergy anyway.

‥…ask for flowers‥

When S.T.A.R. has shown that it will not monopolize profits, every company is unwilling to push it too hard, so that it will fall into the arms of competitors. After all, in terms of business prospects, the profits in it are too huge for tigers to If you have confidence in the self-discipline of the lion, it is impossible for the lion to believe in the credit of the tiger.

Even without considering the factors of peers, the cutting-edge technology laboratory is still a difficult role to deal with. It spans the two major fields of defense manufacturing and biological research and development. Originally, the equity is basically concentrated in Ross. The power is not dispersed and there is no obligation to disclose information to the outside world. , As long as Ross himself does not waver, this almost completely self-sufficient economy is enough to make any external force that wants to interfere feel extremely troublesome.

After discussing for two hours, Kenny couldn't find a better way. In the end, Kenny, who had a splitting headache, waved his hand and temporarily ended the meeting.

When the management left and the conference room returned to silence, a middle-aged man walked in from the outside. Kenny recognized this man. He was a high-level staff member of the president, a shareholder of the company and a long-time friend of the Watsonton family. .

"You've seen it all, Malick." Kenny sat down feebly, only at this moment did he look a little old.

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"Yes. But to be honest, your request is too difficult for these people outside. Our children are really not easy to deal with." Malick took a bottle of wine from the bar and poured himself a glass.

"He has a good idea. As an upstream manufacturer, he treats us as a downstream processing link. Who does Ross Byrne think he is, Coca-Cola, who provides puree to the world, and let us charge for him?"

Kenny said angrily, took the cup and drank it down.

Malick ignored him, he was a long-term viewer and didn't care too much about financial interests, seeing that Kenny's fire was still alive, he directed his attention to things he cared more about

"How is things with Warren, I hear he's getting worse."

"...Yes", talking about the only heir, son Warren Watsonton III, Kenny really left Ross behind, his face became more gloomy.

"Recently, Warren's wings are nearly 5 yards long, and I have to tie his upper body firmly with braces. Every time I see him in pain, I feel as sad as him, but the news I want to get There has been no result, and now the company is facing challenges again, which is really troublesome!"

"That's right, but children's affairs are always more important, after all, they are our future." Malick agreed, sending a good news in time, which made Kenny look bright.

"I have communicated with my friends in the medical advisory group. In the next year, Watsonton Pharmaceuticals will provide funding to implement the low-cost medical examination pilot bill in 13 states on the east coast. Each hospital promises to collect them. The blood samples will be screened by Watsonton's testing laboratory, I believe that you will get what you want."

Hearing the news, Kenny finally showed a smile and thanked his friend Malik again and again.

"My ancestors once learned how to cure snake venom from the Mexicans. Those South Americans knew that wherever snakes infested, there are often plant herbs that can resist them. Grind these herbs and apply them on the wound. The deadly venom is gradually decomposing. I believe that Warren can also be treated in this way. Only Mutant can resist the evil of Mutant. I will definitely find out the bastards hidden in the crowd and get Warren back to normal. medicine."

Facing the window, Kenny Watson II said with infinite longing. Behind him, Malick narrowed his eyes and drank the wine in the glass with his head up. .