Opinion Survey

"The Great American Drug Deal" & Study Guide

Taking Action: No Patient Left Behind

Optional Assignment: Write your own op-ed!

Additional Reading: Articles

Lesson 1: Intro - How a Biotech Investor Came to the Drug Pricing Debate

Lesson 2: The Biotech Social Contract -- The Mortgage we Pay for Generic Drugs (and why we shouldn't settle for renting)

Lesson 3: Generics -- Their Value to Society and Why They're Worth Celebrating

Thinking Deeper Exercise 1: Value of Generics (Optional)

Lesson 4: The VC Perspective and Why Short Term Profits are Crucial

Lesson 5: One Simple Formula to Determine if an Investment is Compelling

Thinking Deeper Exercise 2: Failed Drug Case Study (Optional)

Lesson 6: Price Controls, How Congress is Missing the Big Picture, and The Beyoncé Effect

Lesson 7: Global Pricing and why the USA is a Good Roommate

Lesson 8: Public Perception and Peter's Answer to Victims Price Gouging

Thinking Deeper Exercise 3: Your perspective (Optional)

Quiz: The Great American Drug Deal

Lesson 1: Types of Financings & Funds and Why RA Made Up a Term to Describe Itself

Lesson 2: Crossover Investing -- Throwing the Egg Over The Wall (With Help)

Thinking Deeper Exercise 1: Crossover investing (Optional)

Lesson 3: Valuation -- Fairness is in the Eye of the Beholder

Lesson 4: Darmok & Jalad -- Doing Business through Memes

Thinking Deeper Exercise 2: Your Own Shorthand (Optional)

Lesson 5: Fund Size vs. Company Size and How David Can Compete with Goliath

Lesson 6: BioPharma Hustle and How We Knew Hep C Would Be Cured

Thinking Deeper Exercise 3: Examples of Biopharma Hustle (Optional)

Lesson 7: Behind the Scenes of a Tech Atlas Map

Lesson 1: Exelixis case study (slides)

Lesson 2: NXEL NPV Model

Thinking Deeper Exercise: Creating a NPV model (Optional)

Post-Course Survey