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Shkreli: Machines will replace human doctors entirely within 30 years
“There's, if we do our jobs right, there's no such thing as a doctor in 30 years. That every operation, every prescription, every piece of medical advice you ever get from now on comes from a machine and it costs 10 cents.”
Shkreli: Made his wealth in clinical drug development, not price hikes
“A lot of people think that I take medicines and raise prices. Well, this drug was barely in human beings. It had been in like 30 or 50 people. Helped up until that point. And, you know, I made most of my money in, in sort of developments in, in environment on …”
Shkreli: Every insurer covered Daraprim because it was cheaper than ICU stays
“There's not an insurer in the world that didn't cover Daraprim because If you don't pay the 50,000 dollars roughly what Daraprim costs for a whole course, forget per pill, about 50 grand if you end up needing Daraprim. If you don't pay that, you're gonna pay f…”
Shkreli: In the future, humans will marry AI and AI will vote
“You know, probably some of the craziest ones I've made, including include things like they'll, they'll be kind of interspecies marriage between AI and humans. There'll be AI fundamental rights for voting and things like that. That'll kind of reshape society. S…”
Shkreli: Vivek Ramaswamy was his biggest investor and supersized his business model
“And my friend and at the time it was actually my biggest investor, Vivek Ramaswamy, he's now running for president. He basically took our business model and supersized it.”
Shkreli: Acquitted of Retrophin-Related Federal Criminal Charges
“And it's like, you know, I was actually acquitted of those charges, and I'm so proud of that.”
Shkreli: First individual personally sued for monopoly by the FTC
“The Federal Trade Commission actually personally sued me for monopoly. I'm the first person in American history, the Sherman Act, which is 125 years old, the first person to personally be sued by the Federal Trade Commission, which is very odd. Because John D.…”
Shkreli: 90% of healthcare costs stem from physicians and 10% from pharma
“90% of healthcare costs come from physicians. 10% come from pharma.”
Shkreli: Five of the top ten hedge funds of all time faced regulatory shutdown
“If you look at the top hedge funds from the nineties, almost none of them exist today. And I think of those like top 10 hedge funds of all time, like five were shut down by regulatory. Intervention.”
Shkreli: Vertex drug eliminates cystic fibrosis for 90% of patients
“There's this miracle drug by Virtex, one of my favorite drug companies for cystic fibrosis. Miracle product, literally cure for cystic fibrosis. Amazing. Cystic is no longer a medical problem for 90% of people with cystic fibrosis.”
Shkreli: US healthcare spending will reach 50% of GDP over time
“And that's why we've spent, we've gone from something, five percent of our GDP on healthcare to 20%. And I think that's going to go to 50% over time because our basic goods and needs are Maslowian kind of needs or med, you know, we can eat, we can have shelter…”
Shkreli: Predicts the FTC's $60M antitrust ruling against him will be overturned
“And they won. So I'm appealing that, but they won a sixty million dollar hit against me. So until I figure that out, I'm sort of not, not in the market. It's very like bizarre ruling that I think will get overturned.”
Shkreli: Made $20M shorting Vital Therapies in personal account
“It was in my personal account. We made twenty million dollars shorting the stock called Vital Therapies.”