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Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a 250-Year-Old Company

2026-02-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·58m 12s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan on Transforming a …
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a16z general partner Jorge Conde talks with Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis International, about transforming a 250-year-old conglomerate into a pure play medicines company and unlocking $180 billion of value in the process. They cover Novartis’s platform technologies: cell and gene therapies, RN