This was the plot of the film "The Founder" on the founding of McDonalds.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/

There's a good scene in "The Founder" that covers that concept [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+mcdonalds+you%27re+i...

It's a general business trope, isn't it?

Ford is a pension fund that happens to make cars.

Berkshire Hathaway is an insurance company that makes a lot of investments.

A supermarket is a bank that sells food.

GE at one point was also more or less a financial company that sold industrial goods.

I guess the thing is once you take a financial view of how a business works, a lot of things don't look like what they normally look like.

I know at one point GM cars were mostly used to sell GMAC financing, though I think that particular inversion has stopped now.

There was this event, it happened in 2008 and it stopped the GMAC thing like the full stop stops this comment.

People complain about "ZIRP", but it did reduce the benefits of co-mingling finance with retail and decoupled consumer credit from being quite so critical to sales.

Amazon is a cloud computing company that uses its resources to host an online shopping website

Harvard is a hedge fund that occasionally educates people.