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8 facts from 6 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2011
Peter McCullough said Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel was on record telling his wife there was less than a 5% chance Moderna would succeed.
“he's on record telling his wife, Listen, there's probably less than 5% chance this will ever be successful.”
2020
Ray Kurzweil says Moderna simulated billions of mRNA sequences in two days to design its COVID-19 vaccine, with ten months spent on testing.
“They did that in two days.”
2020
Peter McCullough said that when the COVID vaccine campaign began on December 10, 2020, previously infected and pregnant people who had been excluded from trials were encouraged to take it.
“December 10th, 2020, when it rolls out, they said, Well, damn, the torpedoes, everybody takes it.”
2021
Neeley says Moderna had only about 800 employees early in the COVID period while Pfizer had 100,000, and Moderna's CEO calls it a technology company that happens to do biology.
“technology company that happens to do biology. And what we know from Moderna early early on during the COVID days they had only 800 employees Pfizer had 100,000 employees”
2025
Peter McCullough said the McCullough Foundation estimated, from Pfizer and Moderna sales data, that 8.9% of people took a COVID booster in the previous year.
“it was 8.9% of people took a booster last year”
Undated
Moderna built custom GPTs to help employees prepare their annual performance reviews, which introduced staff to AI.
“they built a whole series of GPTs that help people uncover their own performances, it's improvement needs and what they've done over the year”
Undated
David Martin said Moderna integrated its chief information officer and chief human resources officer roles, referring to a comment attributed to Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
“You heard Jensen Wang talk about, you know, the CIO is the CHRO in the future. Moderna integrated those two roles.”
Undated
Tim Crawford cites Moderna as the poster child of the debate over applying HR policies to AI agents.
“Moderna's the poster child of this, you know, should we be taking HR policies and applying it to agents”
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