stephan had built an 800 strong risk embracing team and a platform that was geared for explosive scale. When the time came that year, the company made the biggest ever biote ipo in terms of raise and valuation. But then the stock started trading one mabe of the most embraassing moment of my life. I think ie went down 18 % of fogad a november us. So there's a lot of things we want to do nc wise. And drug wis. We don't have any money without doing it."
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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