Our 100th Podcast: Greg Zuckerman on the Inside Story of the Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine

This is the 100^th podcast episode of my show! It has been an amazing two years interviewing some of the sharpest minds across macro, investments, geopolitics and of course, on COVID. Thank you for all the support!

Greg is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine. The book has been optioned by HBO for a series from Academy Award winning director Adam McKay. Greg is also the author of the bestseller: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched a Quant Revolution. In this podcast we discuss:

1. Why it was outsiders and not Big Pharma that developed the vaccine
2. The importance of earlier vaccine work on HIV
3. How the vaccine was developed so quickly
4. The key players in vaccine development from Moderna to BioNTech
5. What mRNA and adenovirus vaccines are
6. The outlook for vaccine breakthroughs for other diseases
7. What made Jim Simons the top investor of all-time
8. The importance of culture
9. Books that influenced Greg: Den of Thieves (Stewart), Liar’s Poker (Lewis), Barbarians at the Gate (Burrough) and Indecent Exposure (McClintick)

You can get Greg’s new book, A Shot to Save the World, here. You can contact Greg here and follow him on Twitter here.

You can read the transcript for this podcast here.

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