I'm reminded of that scene in the original "Willy Wonka" movie, where Verruca Salt's father has all of his slave laborers furiously opening thousands of Wonka bars in hopes of getting his daughter a golden ticket. You see the hundreds of poor workers slaving away at this single quest, and Mr. Salt screams from his office door "WORK HARDER! FASTER!".
I suspect in the end they will try to torpedo him for being a 'boring', middle aged white guy.