Aperture Sciences
Scientific Reasearch
What most people don’t know is that Aperture started as a shower curtain manufacturer, and God knows what they did to evolve into a scientific research firm. On the basis of that mind-boggling evolution alone, I would totally invest 40,000 shares.
The main Aperture product we all know and love is of course, the Portal Gun. The many uses of the Portal Gun makes it a very viable product to back. Think of the boost it could give to the bungee jump industry, or sky-diving for that matter. Upon further rumination, Portal Guns would have to sell packaged with Conversion Gels. And before you can make portals, you have to paint sh*t first. Maybe a downloadable update can fix this bug.
Another area of concern is Aperture’s A.I. department. The part where GLaDOS became sentient and hostile and killed dozens didn’t make very good press. So that would hurt my decision a little. I would dial it down to 30,800 shares.
Vault-Tec
Military Contractor
My Vault-Tec decision comes with a big caveat. Vault-Tec intentionally put out defective products. The vaults were radiated and ridden with radroaches (eww). I would invest in a better version of the vaults. But they weren’t antagonists in the game for nothing.
Vaults are the next big thing. They are the real estate of the post-apocalyptic future. Investing in Vault-Tec means investing in entire cities; in a system that connects industries together. It could also be a possible gateway to cornering utilities and spawning hundreds of “companion” products (vault system GPS, furniture etc.)
Even today doomsday shelters are becoming a thing. In the future, when we finally succumb into some man-made global catastrophe, people would be clammoring for the protection of a well-made network of vaults. And by then my 80,000 shares would mean millions, even billions! But then, I would also be dead.
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