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Sometimes it is serendipity that makes the biggest breakthrough, though... see for example the Ebola drug now, this same evening, seeming effective against Coro
by DrNuke 7y ago
Sometimes it is serendipity that makes the biggest breakthrough, though... see for example the Ebola drug now, this same evening, seeming effective against Coronavirus... you as a VC can neither plan for nor invest in any given lab or boutique consultancy worldwide... and the bigger and bigger hammer thrown at hard nuts is just another way, a very expensive one and possibly unsustainable by VC?
- pfdietz 7y agoThey tested that drug against Feline Infectious Peritonitis, and it was highly effective (turning a cat death sentence into a 80% cure rate), but decided not to commercialize for that because the market was too small. I bet they're kicking themselves now.