In the cartoon,
ACME is eventually revealed as being“A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Roadrunner Corporation”, which of course indicates that Road Runner
was in control of the company's products.
Men who start before 8 are not unheard of, but they're rare, and very often they're the crazy ones, the insomniacs,
the type-A Roadrunners who burn out by the time they're 40.