An Entrepreneurial Aspect of the Movie:
The movie was based on a true story of a bull riding man getting HIV and what effects that had on him. He was a hero to a lot of people who suffered from HIV because he went out of his way to find medicine to help them become healthy and stay alive. By doing this, the Dallas Buyers Club was born in 1988. The Dallas Buyers Club was a "business" that Ron Woodroof created to sell pharmaceuticals without the hospitals or pharmacies. He became his own pharmacy in a sense. This is entrepreneurial because he innovated a business that made profit to help people who had HIV. He took financial risks, legal ricks, and physical risks with his own health.
Why is this Interesting?:
This is interesting because it really happened. Ron Woodroof went from being a bull riding electrician, to a self made backyard entrepreneur. This was a real man struggling with his health and accepting the fact that he had HIV. He wasn't going to accept that he only had 30 days to live and while finding ways to get medicine that was normally unavailable to him, he made a difference for people around him who were struggling too. He started with getting ATZ from a nurse at a local hospital he went to, finding out the ATZ was actually worsening his symptoms on top of the fact that he was doing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, to going all the way to Mexico to work with a "doctor" to sell him all normal and natural pharmaceuticals like vitamins and protein serums.
The Relationship/Support between Entrepreneurship & Society:
It is said that an entrepreneur needs society for him to establish a business while the society cannot function without the presence of entrepreneurs. This is precisely what was happening within this movie. People who had HIV were trying to find medicine and experiments to take part in at the hospitals in order to possibly get better. The FDA and hospitals were making it very difficult for these people to trust them and have anymore hope. Ron took this as an advantage and found a way to make $400 per person a month for a subscription of however many pills and serums they want. Ron could not make the profit to pay for outside medicine without his patients paying for medicine they needed from him. They were unable to get the treatment they needed anywhere else so they went to Ron and Ron went to them. Throughout this movie you see many points in which the entrepreneur and society are supporting each other through the traumatizing experience that is HIV and AIDS.
What is the Interaction between the two like?:
Well, to put it simply, entrepreneurs create wealth in society. Ron was a somewhat successful underground entrepreneur because he created a way to push products to the people where the demand was high. In this case, it was pharmaceuticals for HIV and AIDS patients. This business that Ron was running improved peoples lives and even resulted in economic growth, because he had people coming back to purchase more medicine.
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