The Founder – 2016
This movie is amazing. Unfortunately, it flopped at the box office but it is a MUST SEE for those trying to build self esteem as well as entrepreneurs.
Ray Kroc is a frustrated milkshake machine salesman who belies in himself even though everyone else including his own wife has given up on him. He is made to feel over the hill at 52 but he knows he knows he hasn’t scratched the surface of his potential. He hasn’t given up on himself but everyone around him as given up on him. He has had many ideas over the years and has repeatedly failed at trying his luck as a door-to-door salesman and now he has become a joke to the people in his small town but he keeps going.
One day, he comes across a hamburger shop owner, brothers, who want to order nine of his milkshake machines in their meticulously designed restaurant in California called McDonald’s. He can’t believe that someone wants to order his milkshake machine especially nine of them so he drives down to meet the owners to take the machines and he is floored at the great concept the owners have with people waiting in line to get their burgers and the precise way the burgers are made. This concept is completely the opposite of anything Ray has seen anywhere else. He knows this is an amazing idea … but the brothers don’t. They are content of mediocrity instead of potential.
The owners who are also older are tired and settled are extremely strategic in running the one operation just the way it is but Ray sees something much bigger. I won’t give you all the details but I will say that Ray had something the brothers didn’t have … VISION and Fortitude. They wanted to die running the one shop after one failed attempt at opening another shop but Ray saw the potential for a huge franchise. In the end, Ray ended up owning the McDonald’s brand to the brother’s chagrin but when you see what he was up against you actually root for him. SEE THIS MOVIE, you will learn a lot and be incredibly inspired.
