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The Founder
GREECE · 2016

The Founder

John Lee Hancock
entrepreneurship corporate ambition business betrayal franchise capitalism American dream corruption
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Synopsis

The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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