Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

21 statements across 1 episodes · 13 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2023 by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw · said 30 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Everything said about Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, oldest first

Jul 23, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw: I still bank with Canara Bank because they bet on me
“I always bank with Canara Bank even today because of that. He was the only one who took a bet on me.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 34:01 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw agreed to start Biocon with a one-year job fallback guarantee
“Why don't you really look at this joint venture and start, and if you don't like it after a year, ok, I will promise you to find you a job. Ok, so with that kind of assurance, I thought, I have nothing to lose.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 22:53 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Over 40% of Biocon's R&D researchers are women
“In fact, even right now, more than 40% of my researchers are women.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:36:17 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Mazumdar-Shaw: Vijay Mallya has paid back everything he owed
“Well, he's paid back everything he owed. So I don't understand why he's still being targeted.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 11:08 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon spun off oncology startup Bicara Therapeutics to Boston
“I myself spun off a company from Biocon called Baikara you know, which I took to Boston, and today that's the most, the hottest biotech startup in, in that onco field.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:50:46 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw: I plan to stay actively engaged for another 10 years
“So today, I think I will give myself another 10 years of active engagement, so to speak, where I can't possibly say, oh, tomorrow I'm going to take a break, or tomorrow I want to do something which today I can't even think of.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:23:54 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon Biologics is valued at roughly $6B
“Today, for instance, I've created Biocon Biologics, which is worth about six billion dollars in valuation. And if I have to do, and I could only do that deal at that value to make that acquisition, which was part cash, part stock. And if I didn't have that cur…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:03:56 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Opinion
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon was the first startup in India
“Of course, a few years later, I was very lucky that I was able to get the brightest minds to join me, and I therefore consider myself really the first startup in the country.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 32:02 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Insight
Mazumdar-Shaw: Enzyme tech is cheaper than chemicals factoring in effluent treatment
“And I would say, because actually it's not two X, you're actually spending much less than even the chemical technology, because you actually need to process the effluent you are You know, throwing out because of the chemical process. Right now, you don't do ef…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 29:41 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw: Personally invested in Indian CAR-T cancer startup Immuneel
“So I've invested in a company called Immuneel, which has developed, you know, a CAR T therapy for untreatable, you know, blood cancers.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:49:30 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mazumdar-Shaw: Pharma sales and marketing in India is 90% men
“Sales and marketing in pharmaceuticals. That is like, 90% men, which I find really not acceptable.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:36:32 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Enzyme tech can replace polluting chemical industrial processes
“Today, chemicals pollute, but if you use biotransformation or biocatalysis, you can replace those chemical processes with enzyme technologies, which are very, very eco-friendly and non-polluting and biodegradable.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 28:15 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon ties executive goals to reaching 30% women on shop floors
“When I look at my shop floor, there are only about 10% women on the shop floor. I'm now deliberately trying to force That ratio to increase to at least 30%. And I think it's beginning to happen. And that's because I've put it as a KRA for my leadership team sa…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:35:29 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon bought out Unilever's 30% stake for $2M in 1998
“Unilever at that time owned 30% of Biocon. Okay. Now all that we paid Unilever was two million dollars for that 30%.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 47:46 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Insight
Mazumdar-Shaw: Founders should retain maximum equity to protect strategic control
“So whilst you share equity, I think you must continue to see whether you can hold the maximum equity share in your company as long as you can to make sure you drive it in the direction that you think it ought to be driven into.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 42:26 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mazumdar-Shaw: Indian breweries refused to hire female brewmasters in late 1970s
“Whilst breweries were very willing to help me, to ask me to come and help them fix their problems, do troubleshooting, which I did. I even commissioned a brewery in Calcutta. But when it came to giving me a job, I think no one wanted to risk that. They all sai…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 15:01 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon's first two employees were retired tractor mechanics
“So my first two employees were retired tractor mechanics who needed a job desperately.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 31:51 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Insight
Mazumdar-Shaw: Going public creates valuation currency essential for scaling
“I believe that as you grow your company, you need you need a capital value for a kind of a currency that you use to grow your company with. So if you create a valuation for your company, you can use that as a very, very powerful currency to do many more things…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:02:30 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Opinion
Mazumdar-Shaw: People in Bangalore speak their minds and avoid virtue signaling
“So, you know, Nikhil, I think virtue signaling is a problem in the world, but I for one believe that many of us in Bangalore are not virtue signaling, because we are who we are. I think we speak our minds. We are not fake. We do and say things as they are. And…”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:25:32 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mazumdar-Shaw: Biocon has created at least 100 entrepreneurs from its alumni
“The Biocon group, if I count now, I think I've created a hundred entrepreneurs from our organization.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 40:05 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
Jul 23, 2023
Assertion Supported
Mazumdar-Shaw: Rejected by St. John's and CMC Vellore medical schools
“After finishing my pre-university, I wanted to actually get into medical school. Mm-hmm. And I applied to St. John's and Velour. I didn't get into either of them.”
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 3:35 Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
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