How to Scale a Big Pharma Company?

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Stephan visited companies including net flicks, google and facebook. He told me about the many things he learned about scaling culture,. hiring at speed, on boarding and defining your mission. Madurna worked at building out its tech platform. But while progress was encouraging, acceptance of the new technology in the wider industry was slow. It made getting funding from institutional investries difficult. And it also made attracting highly qualified scientists hard.

If you're launching a moonshot, success depends on how you manage the trajectory of risk. When Stéphane Bancel became Moderna's first CEO, the biotech start-up was chasing a way-out idea many experts thought was impossible. Stéphane built a culture of calculated risk-taking to create a platform for extraordinary leaps — one that enabled life-saving mRNA vaccines when Covid-19 struck.

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