Episode · Acquired · 2024-01-22
Books mentioned on Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)
Last year Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, overtook LVMH to become Europe’s most valuable company. And the pull for Acquired to finally tackle healthcare (18% of US GDP!
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Breakthrough
Discussed“I spent a bunch of time reading this book Breakthrough by Thea Cooper and Arthur ansburg and they go way into this basically this team was the first one to figure out you could Target the pancreatic eyelets and isolate the extra in a relatively pure form”
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7 Powers
7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer is an acclaimed business strategy book that outlines seven specific factors enabling companies to achieve persistent differential returns.
Discussed“and uh for folks who are new to the show this is borrowed from our great friend Hamilton Helmer and his wonderful book Seven powers where he talks about the means by which a company can achieve persistent differential positive Returns versus their competitors in an industry”
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Wool
Wool by Hugh Howey is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel depicting humanity surviving deep underground in a massive silo after the surface world has become toxic.
Recommended“well I have to give you a big thank you because over the last couple weeks since your recommendation I have read the book wool which is the first in the series that is The Silo series on Apple TV”
