DNA Database Dilemma
As CEO of GeneTrust, your once-promising biotech startup is 72 hours from bankruptcy. With 50,000 customer DNA profiles in your database, a secret consortium of buyers is offering enough to save the company - if you violate every privacy promise you've made. Your lead investor is pressuring you to take the deal, while your Chief Ethics Officer threatens to blow the whistle.
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Difficulty
B1-B2
Scenario Overview
Your Role
Dr. Sarah Martinez, CEO of GeneTrust
Conversation Partner
Marcus Chen, Lead Series-A Investor
Setting
Glass-walled corner office on the 43rd floor, city lights twinkling through rain-streaked windows, multiple screens displaying plummeting financial graphs
Location
GeneTrust HQ, San Francisco Financial District
Learning Objectives
Navigate the conversation without explicitly agreeing to sell data or explicitly refusing
Extract more information about the potential buyers' identity and intentions
Find a way to stall for time while maintaining investor confidence
About This Scenario
As CEO of GeneTrust, your once-promising biotech startup is 72 hours from bankruptcy. With 50,000 customer DNA profiles in your database, a secret consortium of buyers is offering enough to save the company - if you violate every privacy promise you've made. Your lead investor is pressuring you to take the deal, while your Chief Ethics Officer threatens to blow the whistle.
How It Starts
“Sarah, I just got off the phone with our friends at BlackRock. The numbers are worse than we thought - we're losing $300,000 per day. That DNA database is our only liquid asset. We need to make a decision tonight.”
This is how Marcus Chen, Lead Series-A Investor's greeting will start.
Practice Details
Scenario ID
#365
Category
General
Location Tag
GeneTrust HQ, San Francisco Financial District
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