The scene Robert caused lacked grace, but Vivian would later learn it wasn't without reason. Robert had established his own investment firm around the same time she was forming ViTech, his motives clear: he sought to achieve success in front of the family before she could.
Still, there were two significant distinctions between Robert's and Vivian's projects. Whereas ViTech innovated things from the ground up and started to rapidly create other companies and subsidiaries for the Conglomerate, Robert tried to recruit the small businesses that were trying to enter the big industrial league.
Still, Robert couldn't match anywhere near the technological revolution Vivian launched, and he started to take drastic steps to interfere with the work of his clients, especially in the parts where he saw them not performing up to his standards, creating unnecessary struggle between him and his clients the more he tried to rush them.