If It Works, It Will Change the World Forever

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Stefon Newbar is the co-founder of maderna, a company that develops new drugs. He was inspired by his wife to take on big challenges in business and technology. Now he wants to help people with rare genetic diseases get better access to life-saving treatments.

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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