Marvel’s Speedsters

Flushing, New York, Watsonton Pharmaceutical Building.

This is a large multinational company, and it is not an overstatement to say that Stark Industries in the pharmaceutical industry.

In fact, it was born much earlier than Tony’s father, Howard, who founded Stark Industries, and its original history dates back to the ancient Mexican-American War.

At that time, when the elder of the Watsonton family went out with the army, he accidentally obtained an ointment method for healing snake venom from the residents of the enemy country, and after returning, he concocted it according to the law, and then contributed a lot to the development plan of New Mexico and other southern states, and also took the opportunity to form the predecessor of Watsonton Pharmaceutical. After hundreds of years of development, the overall size of the current Watsonton company is still more than Stark Industries, and the shareholders of the board of directors include a large number of powerful people from all walks of life in addition to the members of the founder’s family, which can be called a giant pharmaceutical group.

Today, the company’s conference room is filled with heads of department heads from Europe across the Atlantic and emerging markets around the Pacific Rim, all of whom are admired and successful people who today have disappeared and who are receiving the thunderous wrath of Kenny Watsonton II, the company’s chairman and CEO, in a miserable fog.

“…… Invest huge. Big, inefficient, this is our R&D status! Last year, we invested a total of $9.9 billion in R&D, an increase of about 1% over the previous year, but in exchange for declining profits and market share in the past year! Our research institutions must be reorganized and adjusted, replace capable young people, carry out mergers and acquisitions if necessary, and directly absorb talents and technology from dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises! ”

The people below are silent, but Kenny Watsons II’s anger is getting stronger and stronger, and the brilliant results of the cutting-edge technology laboratory hyped by the outside world in recent days have really stimulated him, and the board and investors are also suspicious of recent results. Faced with challenges on all fronts, he must whip at slack management to cheer these lazy guys back.

Kenny has led the business for twenty years, longer than Tony has been in Stark, and he is very different from the playboy from a famous family and has a strong personality, without the aura of genius, he bridges the gap with diligence, and among the many entrepreneurs in his thirties and fifties, he is the only one who starts as a salesperson at the bottom and rises to the ding. Long-term struggle on the front line of management positions has enabled him to understand every aspect of the company, and his absolute control day after day, year after year, has finally made Watsons his own words, and no one dares to confront him in person.

If it weren’t for some personal affairs in the family in the past few years, which involved Kenny’s energy, he would never have allowed a new force like Ross Byrne to grow outside of Watsonton’s territory.

Acquisitions, poaching, mergers, suppression… A multitude of means will come, and it will be fierce, until the young man is overwhelmed and completely succumbed to the supreme will of Watsons II.

However, reality played a joke on him, and while he was working on solving family affairs, these incompetent subordinates cared about the existence of Osborne Industries, allowed an independent laboratory to thrive, and recently entered the reserved field of traditional pharmaceutical companies—- with Kenny’s keen instincts, even if the other party’s voice was still immature, he had already felt the footsteps of the harsh winter and the impending blood in the air in advance.

In order to develop advanced science and technology, pursue due profits—- to hell with such words! Watsons II scoffed at Ross’s proclamation, a seasoned industry leader who knew that any ambitious business rises from insignificance!

Peaceful rise and indisputability are always the delusions of ordinary people, and stepping on the corpses of predecessors and striding forward is the only shortcut to rise.

After a large company has enough market share to survive, it will immediately find that every predator with admission tickets is its own enemy, and the best way to deal with it is to turn them into nutrients in its belly.

“Regarding the cutting-edge technology laboratory, tell us your opinions, how do we deal with the challenge!”

Looking coldly at the grim-faced senior employees below, Kenny decided to let them breathe for the time being.

“Patent mergers and acquisitions do not work, the other party has made it clear that it will not disclose information to the outside world, so can our research institutions increase their efforts, after all, cell regeneration research is invested every year, the basic work should be more solid than Ross Byrne, even if there is some gap, it should not be too big, I think what we lack may just be an inspiration, as long as we break through the fog, the truth behind will automatically emerge in front of us.”

The head of the North American marketing department suggested so, and the head of the corporate planning department next to him also nodded frequently, which is indeed the case with their understanding, but this is a layman’s opinion, and the leaders of the technology and R&D departments can only spread their hands and say that they can’t do anything.

“According to the news mentioned in the press conference, our biological research institute has adjusted its direction in time and is looking for technologically leading partners around the world, but the research on organisms such as the red-spotted salamander takes time. We first need to invest more and map genes comprehensively, while also deepening them. Understand habits and conditions of application across species. According to our analysis, Mr. Byrne’s thinking is basically correct, but it still takes considerable time and sufficient resources to obtain the effect of the Phinex potion. ”

The man pressed the gold-wire 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 others agreed that the opinion made sense, even CEO Watsonton II endorsed his statement.

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

Then the head of public relations also offered his opinion.

“Can we do something about fishing vessels?” This is a middle-aged man with dark eyes.

“Not disclosing the truth means that neither the government nor us, nor the consumer, knows the true composition of the formula, so can we make some of the details, such as allergic reactions or other indications, and then drag them into the legal quagmire with lawsuits?”

His view is also the effective response of large companies to small enterprises for many years, small companies will face the legal offensive of large companies if they are not careful, even if they have the upper hand, it seems that there is only one step away from sky-high compensation, then it is often a mediation letter rather than a real dollar.

But this method still has no effect.

“According to the contacts we sent, S.T.A.R. does not intend to enter the drug market on a large scale, but intends to appear as a material drug provider, they will announce to collaborators 99% of the non-essential ingredients of regenerative drugs, and the most important core technology is provided in the formulation of Finix-Alpha I. In other words, if the outside world tries to file a lawsuit, it is likely that it will not be S.T.A.R., but their partners and sellers. That would be a risk we would have lost most of our market share in the next few years before we could achieve our goal. ”

The head of the legal department replied helplessly.

That’s the problem, and while the industry’s leading pharmaceutical companies are eyeing cutting-edge tech labs, it’s impossible to form a synergy anyway.

At a time when S.T.A.R. has shown that it will not monopolize profits, every company is reluctant to push it too hard to throw itself into the arms of competitors, after all, in terms of business prospects, the profits are too large, and the tiger cannot have confidence in the lion’s self-discipline, and in turn the lion cannot believe in the tiger’s credit.

Even without considering peers, the cutting-edge technology laboratory is a difficult role to deal with, spanning the two major fields of defense manufacturing and biological research and development, and its own equity is basically concentrated in Ross, power is not decentralized, 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 tricky.

After two hours of discussion, he could not find a better way, and finally Kenny, who had a headache, had to wave his hand and temporarily end the meeting.

When management had left and the room had returned to quiet, a middle-aged man walked in from outside, recognized by Kenny, a senior aide to the president, a shareholder of the company, and longtime friend of the Watsons family.

“You see it all, Malik.” Kenny sat down weakly, and at this moment he looked a little old.

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

“He had a good idea. As an upstream manufacturer, treating us as a downstream processing link at will, who does Ross Byrne think he is, Coca-Cola, to provide raw pulp to the world, let us charge for him? ”

Kenny said angrily, taking the cup and drinking it.

Malik ignored him, he was a long-term man who didn’t care too much about financial interests, and seeing that Kenny was still angry, he drew his attention to more concerns.

“What happened to Warren, I heard that his condition is more serious.”

“…… Yes”, speaking of the only heir, son Warren Watsington III, Kenny really left Ross behind, and his face became even more gloomy.

“Warren’s wings have recently become nearly 5 yards long, and I have to tie his upper body firmly with a posture harness, and every time I see him uncomfortable, I feel as sad as he is, but the news I want to get has never come to fruition, and now the company is facing challenges, what a trouble!”

“That’s true, but the children’s affairs are always more important, after all, they are our future.” Malik chimed in, offering good news in time to make Kenny look perked up.

“I’ve passed with my friends on the medical advisory group that within the next year, with Watsonton Pharmaceutical’s funding for a low-cost physical exam trial bill in 13 states on the East Coast, hospitals have promised to send the blood samples they collect to Watsonton’s testing labs for screening, and I’m sure you’ll get what you want.”

Hearing the news, Kenny finally smiled and thanked his friend Malik one after another.

“My ancestors learned from the Mexicans how to heal snake venom, and those South Americans knew that snakes often have plant herbs that can resist them, and that grinding and mashing these herbs and applying them to wounds can gradually break down the deadly venom. I believe that Warren can also be treated by this method, mutants are a vicious disease that only mutants can resist, and I will definitely find out the scraps hidden in the crowd and get drugs from them to restore Warren to normal. ”

Facing the window, Kenny Watsons II said with infinite longing, and behind him, Malik narrowed his eyes and drank the liquor in the glass.