![]() ![]() With the recent CEO killings, Knox feels the ground burning beneath his feet and so makes another bold life decision. Rutter now works for the Global Innovation Race and is known to hold a grudge against the Knox family. Another race driver, Maxwell Rutter, who was involved in the accident, sued Knox for damages but lost the trial. Knox is horribly burned and despite the best efforts of GAMA surgeons, he carries the scars from the accident to this day. One day, while experimenting with a new nitrogen boost applicator while driving his prototype car, something goes wrong. He finds an interest in race car driving and quickly forms a team of his own, using Kronstadt patents to boost the performance of the cars. ![]() Knox, a charming eccentric, starts dating Hollywood actresses and soon finds himself on regular covers of tabloids and enthusiast magazines. Over the next decade, Knox carefully crafts an image as a maverick CEO, willing to not only risk things to get his company (and critically its shareholders) a big chunk of the exploding medical and robotics tech share, but also willing to go along with whatever publicity stunt his PR Director comes up with. ![]() His bold personality finds that the public eye is one that pleases him immensely. Suddenly, everyone in tech and money know who Robert Knox is. Three years later, Kronstadt Industries goes public and the stock market explodes. His technical skills and reputation catch the attention of a powerful group of people and one morning, after having shaken hands with a strange, non-descript man, Kronstadt wins an incredibly lucrative contract with the US army to develop robotic soldiers. His skill as a businessman has not improved though and over the next years, Knox' skill at manipulating people through threats, lawsuits and straight bribes keeps the company afloat. Sadly, Florence dies from sepsis following the birth, leaving Robert Knox alone to raise a child and pursue his career at the same time.Ĭoming out of Caltech with a handful of patents, Knox starts Kronstadt Industries. Here, Knox also meets a young post-doc, Florence Underwood, with whom he gets romantically involved.Florence unexpectedly becomes pregnant and gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. Robert started out small, spending his father’s money on several small startups but failing them all due to his inherent interest in product rather than business development.Īt age 21, his family finally pulls a few strings and gets him a PhD stipend at Caltech, where he starts developing robotics and artificial intelligence. ![]()
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