My friend and I played at the same time. Unplanned, they invested in heavily Marketing, and I in Research. They beat it much more quickly, and I had to "cheat" or give up. I exploited Quantum Computing by writing a function in the console that clicked rapidly when the QC was primed, at which point it became quite easy to finish.
If you really want to cheat, you can open your dev console and just type clipClick(<any number>) to instantly make that many paper clips, up to the amount of wire you have.
