@Timjer #86990
Even in the case of the fictional Umbrella Corp, one can reasonably assume they had a goal other than to create a worldwide zombie apocalypse, which apparently destroyed their company as well. Things just … didn’t go exactly according the plan.
Although I haven’t played through the games, so I can’t say for sure, but, well, in almost every story I’ve read, seen, or played where such things happened, the proximate cause of the big problem usually had plans that went awry, rather than this whole thing being the plan. Unless it was something designed from the beginning for 7 year olds.