Pharma Companies

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LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wang: scGPT Is Widely Used by Pharma Single-Cell Teams
“This is also why SCGBT quickly become one of the most widely used single cell foundation model in pharma companies.”
Bo Wang Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 1:19:48 🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model (Bo Wang & Ci Chu)
SOURCERY Insight
Oetting: Pharma companies resist new manufacturing tech to protect approved drugs
“Pharma companies are rationally incredibly averse to switching their process because they've already, you know, they make tons of investments or acquisitions across all these different sort of binary bets. You get one that works, you don't want to have to go d…”
Drew Oetting Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 26:48 How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Pharma simplifies dosing, failing patients on precise-exposure drugs
“Part of the issue is, in that process, they have to try and make it, you know, somewhat simple, so that when it goes into the real world, into the clinic, it's easy for the mass population to follow that dosing guidance, and that's okay with certain drugs that…”
Ranvir Mangat Aug 22, 2025 ▶ 3:12 Precision Dosing & AI in Healthcare: InsightRx’s Journey to Transform Medication Personalization
BIGDEAL Opinion
Dan Go: Food Companies Engineer Addiction While Pharma Masks Symptoms
“Food companies make foods that make you more addicted to the foods that you're eating. Pharma companies come in and they say, oh, cool, we have this thing that's going to help you mask the system, but, or mask the symptom, but what's going to happen is, is tha…”
Dan Go Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 8:24 High Performance Coach: The Truth About Losing Weight & Belly Fat | Dan Go
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Means: 95% of USDA nutrition guidelines panelists receive food or pharma funding
“The USD nutrition guidelines committee, which basically approves and recommends various foods. 95% of it is funded by 95% of the panelists are directly funded by food companies or pharma companies.”
Calley Means Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 51:16 The Dark Story Behind Ozempic’s $500B Business Empire
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Chupswick: Pharma companies and insurers are OnCall Health's largest customers
“The interesting thing is, you know, we do work with some kind of conventional hospital systems, but the larger, like our largest customers are, like I said, pharma companies and insurers that don't directly employ healthcare providers, but they have networks o…”
Nicholas Chupswick Dec 20, 2020 ▶ 8:37 OnCallHealth Grows 150% to $3m Run Rate for Virtual Patient Care HealthTech
a16z Assertion Supported
Nate Chang: Most biotech acquisitions target late-stage or commercial companies
“I think most acquisitions that you see in, in biotech are late stage to marketed stage companies, so they are, I think pharma companies are still very conservative in terms of making big bets on early stage platforms for acquisition.”
Nate Chang Feb 28, 2019 ▶ 11:20 What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
a16z Insight
Hirasaki: Pharma Companies Wait for Phase 2a Data Before Doubling Down
“So, so, you know, it's typical to You know, see pharma companies wait for proof of concept, you know, phase IIa data that shows safety and some efficacy before doubling down.”
Koki Hirasaki Feb 28, 2019 ▶ 13:14 What’s with All the Bio M&A in 2019?: A Quick Take
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kindler: Payers will force pharma to adopt widespread data sharing
“The payers probably have more and better real-world data than the pharma companies do, and one of the reasons that the pharma companies will eventually, in my opinion, have to do data sharing, as Andrew suggests, is that the payers are going to aggregate their…”
Jeff Kindler Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:33 a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Conde: Pharma companies are swimming in targets but lack pipeline drugs
“Pharma companies are swimming in targets, right? The problem they're trying to solve for is how do I fill in my pipeline?”
Jorge Conde Apr 30, 2018 ▶ 6:43 Shifting Risk Mindsets, from Tech to Bio
a16z Insight
Pande: Bio startups risk failure pivoting to drug design without internal expertise
“Whatever the technology is, they got the cool technology, they think this will change drug design, and so then they go to pharma and they try to sell it. And pharma's not convinced yet. Ah, it's like my kids with new foods, and they don't want to try it until …”
Vijay Pande Apr 30, 2018 ▶ 7:33 Shifting Risk Mindsets, from Tech to Bio
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Pharma companies will transition into data generation and data science companies
“And I think we're seeing this more and more, where pharma companies will start to view themselves more as data generating companies. And data science companies as machine learning gets in,”
Vijay Pande Mar 23, 2018 ▶ 8:42 Pande & Conde: When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Iorns: Pharma companies source innovation primarily by buying clinical-stage biotechs
“The pharma companies are desperate for buying in innovation, and so they're really looking for companies to get to that initial proof of concept in a human, in human studies. So that, that's really where a lot of their innovation is coming from, is biotechs th…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 9:41 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator

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