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Money Does Not Come Free
Adrian Borbély & Calvin Chrustie
This case tells the tale of three childhood friends turned entrepreneurs who create a company in the field of medical prosthetics. The products they sell could have military applications. Like many start-uppers and despite little business acumen, they need funds to develop their business, and end up dealing with venture capitalists and wealthy investors. A series of events lead to the founders’ loss of control over their company and its hostile takeover by agents of a potentially hostile country. Their innovation, developed in a Western country for the purpose of helping disabled people, may end up being used in a Super Soldier program by the scientific arm of a foreign nation’s armed forces. The case study aims to trigger reflections on the fragility of the financing systems provided by capitalism, and how nefarious actors may play the capitalist game against them.
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