Large Pharma
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
American Optimist 
No Priors 
the MAD Podcast
4 statements about Large Pharma, every show
Wickramasekara: Large pharma is piloting AI without organizational transformation yet
“Most of the
Large pharma at this point that I've worked with, like, you know, they've got co-pilot and things like that, and they're doing a lot of pilots of different technologies, but I haven't seen their orgs transformed yet.”
Gimenez: Eliminating Startup Upside Would Entrench Incumbent Pharma
“If we didn't give people upside to translate these things, there would not be a system to actually sort of commercialize these things in a sort of fast turnaround biotech ecosystem. We would be dependent, it's not like that, that innovation would go away, but …”
Large pharma relies on acquisitions rather than internal drug research
“Large pharma is not really the research engine anymore, and that a lot of the large pharma actually will acquire more than develop themselves.”
Large pharma incentives encourage researchers to push failing programs to completion
“If you're in a large pharma, and you're just in one area, your goal is to push your programs to the end, even if it's not going to work, ok? And so, countering this kind of incentive is, is, is very important to be successful, because you want to fail fast and…”