drug development

7 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 15, 2017 by Jorge Conde · across every show →

Everything said about drug development, oldest first

Dec 15, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Conde: Only one in 10,000 drug compounds becomes a product
“In this world, it's one in 10,000 becomes a product.”
Jorge Conde Dec 15, 2017 ▶ 3:45 Challenges in Healthcare Innovation
Feb 26, 2019 bullish
Insight
Abernethy: Testing cancer drugs in dogs saves tens of millions per drug
“The whole message that really I walked away from that conference with was that if we now embedded into the drug development process for human drug development a better understanding of how those drugs performed in dogs, we could save many tens of millions of d…”
Dr. Amy Abernethy Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 7:51 a16z Podcast | Connecting Hearts, Bodies, and Networks to Cure Cancer
Dec 12, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Developing a new drug takes 10 to 15 years on average
“These are averages of averages, of course, but on average, it could take anywhere between 10 to 15 years to develop a drug to get it to patients.”
Jorge Conde Dec 12, 2023 ▶ 3:51 Big Ideas in 2024: Programming Medicine’s Final Frontier with Jorge Conde
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Insight
Pande: Regulatory delays in drug approvals cause preventable deaths
“If you don't let the drug through, we're actually killing people right now by not getting these advances through, and I think human beings aren't very good at sort of holding that in their head.”
Vijay Pande Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 55:53 Tony Robbins on the Future of Health & Longevity
Apr 2, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Horowitz: a16z supports regulation in crypto, drug development, and finance
“We're, you know, in representing little tech, we're not a pure libertarian, anti-regulatory kind of You know, force here. We think we need regulation in places. We certainly need it in drug development. We certainly need regulation in crypto and financial serv…”
Ben Horowitz Apr 2, 2024 ▶ 26:52 Politics & the Future of Tech
Aug 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Horowitz: Drug development funding depends on an active M&A market
“It's pretty impossible to do drug to fund drug development if there's no M&A market.”
Ben Horowitz Aug 23, 2025 ▶ 33:06 Ben Horowitz Shares the a16z Origin Story & Plans for the Future
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hsu: Physical synthesis and testing will remain AI drug discovery's bottleneck
“If we play this out, right? And let's say these AI models work, right? And you can make a trillion binders in silico that will, you know, be exquisite drug matter, right? We still need to make these things physically and test them in animals and hopefully pred…”
Patrick Hsu Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 35:50 Faster Science, Better Drugs
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