Inside the GLP-1 Gold Rush: Eli Lilly CEO on New Breakthroughs, Addiction & Mental Health, Pricing

Sep 29, 2025 · 30m

(0:00) Introducing Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks (1:43) How Eli Lilly discovered the GLP-1 impact on weight loss, counterfeit products from China (7:08) GLP-1 pricing and capital allocation after a breakout pharma product (12:56) Why Biotech VC has plummeted, "patent hacking" in China (15:32) Dave's health regimen: good sleep, movement, healthy diet, social relationships, reading (18:32) Unexpected impacts of GLP-1s, helping with addictions, potential mental health use cases (21:16) Thoughts on RFK Jr, Big Pharma's influence on the media, how AI empowers patients (25:27) Impact of proposed NIH cuts, explaining the "PBM boogeyman", next major pharma breakthrough Thanks to our partners for making this happen! Solana - Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Connect with investors, crypto founders, and entrepreneurs at Solana's global flagship event during Abu Dhabi Finance Week & F1: https://solana.com/breakpoint OKX - The new way to build your crypto portfolio and use it in daily life. We call it the new money app. https://www.okx.com/ Google Cloud - The next generation of unicorns is building on Google Cloud's industry…

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