"Oakley is used to the raw potency of my handmade batch," Claire noted. "He's definitely going to notice a dip in quality with this mass-produced assembly-line stuff."
"But it's not like I have the hours in a day to keep hand-mixing it for him. The commercial version will do the job just fine."
"It'll absolutely work, it just requires a little more patience."
"He's not going to complain."
And honestly, Oakley didn't mind in the slightest.
In fact, the original ointment had healed him so impossibly fast that he half-suspected it was loaded with illegal steroids.
A cream with a slightly slower, visibly progressive healing curve actually felt vastly more legitimate and trustworthy to the average consumer.
"My thoughts exactly," Owen said, fully backing Claire's business logic.
"Whatever else you want to know about the company's ops, just say the word. I'll walk you through everything."
Since Claire was a major equity partner purely through her formula, Owen desperately wanted her to be hyper-critical of the process.
If she spotted a flaw, they needed to nuke it immediately.
Though, obviously, zero flaws would be ideal.
Claire laughed and shook her head. "I'm good, Owen. You're lightyears ahead of me in this arena. I've literally never run a business in my life."
"All I know is that quality control is king. As long as our scar cream genuinely delivers on its promises, we'll never have to beg for customers."
With an A-list megastar like Oakley spearheading the marketing campaign, and the staggering weight of the Churchill family backing the venture, how could this start-up possibly fail?
Even if Owen actively refused to leverage his family's name, the elite circles all knew he was the youngest heir to the Churchill empire.
The moment he launched a business, billionaires and investors would literally trip over themselves to fund it, just to curry favor with his family.
It was an undeniable truth: some people weren't just born on third base; they owned the entire stadium. His starting line was everyone else's finish line.
"Don't even sweat it. That's guaranteed," Owen said confidently. "The Churchill family built our entire legacy on absolute integrity."
"Grandpa always says..."
Claire hadn't grown up by the old man's side, so she had missed out on his legendary lectures. But Owen and his brothers had essentially been brainwashed by their grandfather's cutthroat yet principled business doctrines since they were in diapers.
With generations of accumulated wealth and brutal market dominance, the Churchill family possessed a terrifying mastery of the corporate world.


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