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Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan
- ▶ 0:54 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Nubar Afeyan's understanding of risk led to a life-saving vaccine, and to the spectacular rise of Moderna, now one of the biggest biotech companies in the world. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Guy Raz Uh, he's one of the best biotechnologists in the world, um, and he would go on to become a, a Moderna co-founder. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:26 Guy Raz The story of Moderna could have been a story of folly, of a bunch of, you know, well-funded scientists who just spent all of this money, and it was a disaster. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:03 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, one version of success that Newbar did not anticipate was how Moderna would develop a critical vaccine at a critical time and do it unbelievably fast.
- ▶ 45:40 Guy Raz So we're getting to the part of the story where Moderna will go from being a biotech company you probably never heard of to a household name for tens of millions of people. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:48 Guy Raz Um, and from what I understand, I think it was like January sixth, 2020, Stefan Bancel, who's the CEO of Moderna, he found out about this virus in China, and that it was probably a coronavirus.
- ▶ 1:03:06 Guy Raz When you think about the arc of your career and your life, you know, a chance meeting with David Packard, who kind of inspires you to think about maybe starting your own thing, taking a gamble on MRNA, which would lead to the fastest…
- ▶ 1:05:00 Guy Raz He's co-founder and chairman of Moderna, and he's also the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. 2 times in the scene