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Nadav Kidron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
172 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

I raised the money, started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And 13 years later, we are at a very advanced stage and we are seeing now the last steps in order to get it into registration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

There's no such a thing as definitely happening because it's not up to me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

At the end of the day, you have the FDA that they called the shot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So I can never say it's definitely coming.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

At the end of the day, the advantage that we have is that unlike a new drug, I come to New York and say, wow, listen, I find this new chemical entity and that can help diabetes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

Here, what we do is we're taking insulin that has been around for a long time and we know that it works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

And we have the ability to deliver it orally instead of an injection that we already proved in principle that that works.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So that's why I think while there's still a risk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

the chances by our technology is much higher than something which is totally new.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

For most chances, it's going to be one of the two, meaning most chances it will be successful and big.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

or nothing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

I'm talking generally in the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

In our case, I think the chances of success are a little bit better because, like I said, we've got the principle there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

But sometimes you get a situation where something works, it's not that exciting, so it's going to be a drug that's not going to sell for a billion dollars, but maybe there's a $50 million market or you find a niche that you can plug yourself into.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

But 90% chance, when you look at our industry, it's you make it or you break it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So we ourselves, we have a pipeline.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We have other things beyond insulin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

So we're working on insulin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1187 The Chinese Gave Him $50M For Orally Delivered Insulin Capsul Idea, Will It Take Off?

We're working on another drug that's called GLP-1 analog.