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Re:Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary... by benjaminwootton on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:22PM (#37179944)
Indeed. Moderna was real science, real innovation, and mostly huge globs of real private capital at risk. And though I'm skeptical on almost anything "Covid", most people think he saved the world with this vaccine technology which has big potential in future. This is capitalism 101, and the spoils need to go to the victor for it to work.

Any government funding does muddy the waters slightly, but anything they did contribute I assume was for the public good.

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Re:Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary... by mrguyorama on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:26PM (#37179998)
>mostly real private capital at risk

It absolutely was not! It was billions of public funding for a public health emergency.

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Re:Moderna CEO made $400M last year–2,435x the median salary... by benjaminwootton on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:29PM (#37180042)
As described in peer comments, mRNA was a platform developed in the decade prior with over $3 billion of private risk capital. The government came in to help them get the Covid vaccine to market using that existing platform.
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