Chapter Four
Gordon did not especially want to be ousted from the board of his own company. He admitted to himself that it was, in fact, his father who had done the majority of the leg work. His father had started the business from nothing and built it into an international conglomerate of businesses. Well, that was the public understanding of it anyway. The Family Brand was a core part of the marketing strategy of Phillips Corp, and any exaggerations of its founding moments only served to feed the beast of a myth that people literally bought into.
Frank Phillips had borrowed a million dollars from his father, Phillip Phillips, which was a great deal of money at the time. It had taken Frank so many years to pay it back that the exchange rate for a million dollars had changed drastically,
