Pharmaceutical Companies

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21 statements about Pharmaceutical Companies, every show

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Dr. Oz: Administration is pushing GLP-1 drugmakers to onshore manufacturing
“We're also getting these companies to unshore their production facility.”
Dr. Mehmet Oz Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 35:38 Dr. Mehmet Oz on Fixing American Healthcare + Fraud | Live from Davos
Poilievre: Governments and pharma companies perpetuate the drug crisis for profit
“Governments, pharmaceutical companies, and a whole group of parasitical interest groups have created this crisis and perpetuated it.”
Pierre Poilievre Dec 27, 2025 ▶ 51:59 Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability
Taylor: Pre-training startups have pharma-like costs without the pharma business model
“I would have a hard time personally, like, funding a startup that says, I'm gonna do pre-training, you know, it's, ah, it's, I don't really know, like, what's your differentiation in this marketplace, and I think a lot of those companies you're already seeing,…”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:02:18 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
ALL-IN Opinion
Sacks: Pharma TV ad spending buys media coverage, not consumers
“I think my contention would be that the real reason they're paying all this massive advertising is not to influence consumers, but to influence the coverage that they get.”
David Sacks Nov 16, 2024 ▶ 28:31 Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
a16z Insight
Branson calls human outcome data big pharma's biggest competitive AI advantage
“Outcome data is, is, is the gold standard data to have, right? It's the rarest data that's really, like, one of the advantages of pharmaceutical companies have, because they can generate data in humans at scale in a safe, ethical manner.”
Kim Branson Aug 1, 2024 ▶ 27:56 AI in Pharmaceutical R&D with Kim Branson
Weisbrot: Americans Subsidize Global Healthcare via High Drug Prices
“Pharmaceutical companies, for example, they specifically charge more to Americans to cover their ability to offer things for cheaper in other countries. So you might spend five dollars for a box of pills or a bottle of pills in Finland for the same thing in Am…”
Sean Weisbrot Jan 30, 2024 ▶ 24:21 Finland Aims for an 8, Not a 10, and That Changes Everything
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tucker Carlson claims pharmaceutical TV ads are bought to shape news coverage
“Pharma's the biggest advertiser in television, as I know you know, and so, for sure, I mean, if, you know, Pfizer's sponsoring your show, you're not going to question the vax. I mean, it's kind of that simple. So absolutely, and of course, that's why they're t…”
Tucker Carlson Dec 1, 2023 ▶ 4:00 Tucker Carlson: State of America, leaving Fox News, Media Control, Politics, and more
ALL-IN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks says Roger Ailes admitted TV networks blocked anti-pharma news
“He mentioned that he had been friends way back with Roger Ailes. And Roger Ailes specifically told him. That they could not post certain or televised certain content if it was too critical of pharma companies because they were the number one advertiser.”
David Sacks May 12, 2023 ▶ 49:10 E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
Evans: Pharmacy Benefit Managers exist purely to skim off the healthcare industry
“There's this weird thing Americans created called PBM. Is it PBM, the pharmaceutical, the kind of, there's this Entity that basically sits between the insurers and pharmaceutical companies and aggregates orders and bargains. And this is like a, you know, multi…”
Benedict Evans Jul 25, 2022 ▶ 13:19 When the point of leverage changes
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Assertion Contradicted
Sprowls: Florida House Unanimously Passed Canadian Drug Importation Despite Pharma Attacks
“You know, the pharmaceutical companies came in hot and heavy because we wanted to open up markets in Canada to importation of drugs, right? They were blasting us on, on TV, Wall Street, going after us all over the place. But basically they attacked us, and the…”
Chris Sprowls Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 8:57 Joe Lonsdale and Chris Sprowls: How to Defeat Special Interests & Cronyism · Joe Lonsdale
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
23andMe's primary business model is selling data to pharma companies
“And I think 23 and me, their business model is to sell your data, right? Like, I think that is the core business model is they sell it to pharmaceutical companies for you know, like the research or whatever.”
Shaan Puri Dec 17, 2021 ▶ 31:55 Half-Baked TV Show Ideas, Miss Excel Making Millions, The Adventure Challenge, and More
ALL-IN Insight
Friedberg: Drug pricing is calculated from long-term healthcare system cost savings
“Pricing is typically done based on the long term cost benefit of the of the drug of the to the paying system. So, you know, they'll take a look at like, hey, here's how much we're going to benefit people or benefit the paying system. Therefore, we can charge X…”
David Friedberg Jun 13, 2021 ▶ 19:06 E35: Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug approval, the billionaire space race, Bitcoin & more
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Lack of US Government Bargaining Drives High Drug Prices
“The reason why medication in America is so expensive and very cheap outside of the Outside of the US, despite being made by the same damn companies from the same damn factories, is that because the government doesn't bargain on behalf of the population, they c…”
Sean Weisbrot Mar 20, 2021 ▶ 35:12 Healthcare Is a Bucket Full of Holes — Here's What Falls Through
WE LIVE TO BUILD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Pharma Charges Higher US Prices to Subsidize Foreign Markets
“The pharmaceutical companies charge incredible amounts in the US In order to not have to charge higher amounts outside of.”
Sean Weisbrot Mar 20, 2021 ▶ 35:38 Healthcare Is a Bucket Full of Holes — Here's What Falls Through
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Trout: Generic drugs caused widespread pharma layoffs and plummeting morale
“Pharmaceutical companies were all in a transition state because generic medicines were starting to really come out. And there was just a lot of change, a lot of attrition, layoffs every three, four months, productivity went down, engagement went down, morale w…”
Daina Trout Sep 28, 2020 ▶ 9:12 Health-Ade Kombucha: Daina Trout
a16z Insight
Advanced cell and gene therapies require novel pricing and reimbursement models
“If we're gonna make this widely accessible to patients that need them, it's gonna have to be affordable. So we'll need new models for how pharmaceutical companies charge for this, and we're seeing early days of this. We're going to need new models for how paye…”
Jorge Conde Apr 29, 2020 ▶ 18:09 Healthcare Has Left the Building
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pandey: Pharma companies will reframe themselves as data science companies
“Pharma companies will start to view themselves more as data generating companies and data science companies.”
Vijay Pande Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:06 a16z Podcast | When (and How) Biology Becomes Engineering
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kindler: Pharma will virtualize and outsource all functions except commercialization
“And in my opinion, the thing they're really good at that I find it hard to imagine being disrupted in the very near future is that translational stage from late stage assets to initial commercialization, figuring out what the market wants. And again, By analog…”
Jeff Kindler Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:28 a16z Podcast | Move Fast But Don't Break Things (When It Comes to Computational Biology)
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wu: Pharma ignores open-domain nootropics due to lack of patent incentives
“So they cannot be patented, therefore there's not a monopolistic sort of end goal for companies to pharmaceuticalize.”
Jeff Woo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:50 a16z Podcast | Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
20VC Prediction Held up
No New Major Pharma Companies Will Be Built From Biotech VC
“There are very few, there won't be any new major pharmaceutical companies created out of biotech VC money anymore. Really all about creating companies that can exit to these people.”
Peter Parker Jun 11, 2018 ▶ 22:46 20VC: Why Process is Everything In Good Venture Firms, Why GPs Should Have More Empathy For LPs and Lessons from 32 Years In VC, Chairing Over 25 Boards with Peter Parker, Managing Partner @ Bioinnovation Capital
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Supported
Iorns: All marketed drugs require commercial industry to reach patients
“Because the reality is, you know, all innovations that come to market are through industry. So, you know, you don't see drugs on the market that came from academia. They were all, many of them discovered in the earliest phases, the basic research was done in a…”
Elizabeth Iorns Sep 13, 2017 ▶ 13:21 Elizabeth Iorns on Biotech Companies in YC · Y Combinator

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