Your R&D Department Is Getting Lapped by Three Kids in a Garage
That $400M corporate innovation center you built? It's already obsolete. And the CEO of the startup that's about to eat your lunch is 24 years old and has never managed anyone.
I’m in a pitch meeting with a Fortune 100 pharma company’s head of R&D. He’s explaining their rigorous drug discovery process with obvious pride. Stage gates. Review committees. Cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Eighteen months from hypothesis to first experiment.
Eighteen months.
Last week I talked to a biotech startup that went from protein target…
