Penicillin
product on 5 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2018
American Optimist 6 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
20VC 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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Harries: Semaglutide is the biggest medical advancement since penicillin
“This is, like, the biggest thing in medicine since penicillin”
Hayes: Useful technology and lucrative technology are fundamentally distinct
“We tend to conflate, particularly in this era, like, useful tech and lucrative tech, and those are not, like, there's technologies that are incredibly useful that are not particularly lucrative, like penicillin right now, like antibiotics are not, it's not, no…”
Harries: GLP-1 medications are the biggest medical breakthrough since penicillin
“This is, like, the biggest thing in medicine since penicillin”
Thompson: Penicillin was barely used until US WWII industrial scaling
“Like five people have been delivered penicillin in all of human history, 13 years after it was discovered, and the two of them have died. Penicillin has done nothing, and it took a very concerted U.S. Effort to implement penicillin, to grow it in large vats, t…”