An entrepreneur at heart, the young man saw further: what he dreamed of was to create his own laboratory and discover new medicines to combat animal diseases that were at the time hardly or poorly treated. The origin of Virbac’s great adventure, a spark: the summer of 1965 meeting between Pierre-Richard Dick and Max Rombi, who would remain his associate until the beginning of the ’80s. Six years his elder, Max Rombi had a small veterinary clinic in Nice.