Prepose, Trexie Denese H.

12-Chi
Reflection Paper
Movie: The Founder (2016)

The world of business has always had the impression of unformidable competition for
me. It revolves around people who spearhead companies, sell their own products, who ally with
one another and at the same time, take themselves as competitors in a brawl.
In our entrepreneurship class, we watched a movie “The Founder (2016)”, it started off
with an industrious and enthusiastic man who tries his hardest to sell his mixer prototype.
However firm he became with convincing his potential clients, things just didn’t work his way.
It has always been like that to the man, Ray Kroc, who always has the curiosity and resolve to
do business, but everything ends up wasted. Until such time when his journey came across with
the McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac who had a food business that prioritizes both quality
and time, your food served hot in just 30 seconds. And there on, things for Ray and the
McDonald brothers went on for a rollercoaster ride of alliance, harmony, deception and greed.
As astounding as Ray is, he is the type who fixes his mind on something he finds very
interesting. And so, this is what drove him to make the McDonald brothers grant him their
approval of franchising McDonald Hamburgers. He went through thick and thin, had a
consistent quarrel with his wife, went on extensive measures on pitching the food business until
such time that his enthusiasm blinded his judgement. Granted the right to franchise, Ray Kroc
wanted to cross all the boundaries and borders there are, make the McDonalds’ the best food
business in America. He talked his way to gain more and more investors and partners, which
the Dick and Mac never approved. McDonalds food business spread through states, but Ray
thought that things didn’t add up, and that he is losing. Until he made up his mind to forcingly
alter his contract with the McDonald brothers. At the expense of stealing the brothers’ idea and
legacy, Ray became frantically powerful, a man of authority that knew no repentance.
McDonalds’ became immensely popular, but the brothers who founded it lost everything to
Ray Kroc.
The lessons to be reaped from “The Founder” encompasses those of business and
personal values. It surely takes a heap of guts and courage to rise in the world of business.
Success in this sphere works out unpredictably, goes through countless ups and downs, hops
from failure to failure but those who remain indignant and courageous has something to reap
in the end. Also, friendships, especially in this field, doesn’t mean complete transparency and
absence of competition but whatever the case, professionalism and integrity should always
prevail. Money and power make a man respectable but when it becomes nothing but greed, a
man becomes unworthy of it all.