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Bahcall: Ancient empires stifled innovation much like modern big pharma
“China, India, and the Islamic empires were a lot like the Merck, Pfizer, and Novartis of today. They were global, everywhere, dominant. They're phenomenal at franchises. So in India, you've had the Taj Mahal. You know, in China, they built the Great Wall and j…”
Pande: Digital health startups could be acquired by pharma or tech giants
“I could see a Pfizer buying Omada, you know, and maybe coupling with a drug or maybe not. I could see Google buying a company like Omada. I could see Freenome being bought either by a therapeutics company that wants a diagnostic, or by, let's say, a sequencing…”