Jack Altman
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Jack Altman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The a16z Show · Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company · 16 Feb 2026
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Over six years, he spun off three public companies and unlocked almost $180 billion of value.
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Today Novartis is focused on four disease areas and three platform technologies.
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Cell and gene therapies, RNA medicines, and radioligand therapies.
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One of their gene therapies, ZolgenSma, treats children with spinal muscular atrophy.
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A disease that would otherwise be fatal by age two.
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It costs over two million dollars and it's reimbursed in forty eight countries.
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Basin started his career doing public health work on tuberculosis in Peru with Paul Farmer and Jim Kim.
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That still shapes how he thinks about access to medicines today.
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A sixteen Z general partner Jorge Kondi talks with Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Navardis International.
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What does it take to industrialize a continent and a single generation?
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In 1978, Den Xiaoping kept the communist branding but rewired everything underneath.
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Special economic zones became Shenzhen, the Eastern Seaboard Industrialized.
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