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Website Downgrade
United Therapeutics has been in our crosshairs for some time due to their creep show of a team page and depiction of a drug pipeline as a nonsensical cityscape.
But they recently updated the landing page (which is not the homepage, because they apparently think this is the year 2000) and wow, they really outdid themselves - looks like an Alice in Wonderlandesque fever-dream freakshow.
What's better, the guy with three legs and no arms, or the happy sun acting like it's not about to die at the hands of these monsters?
Holidays Forever
Not quite ready to put away the holiday decorations? Join the club.
Neither is Abnoba, a company in Germany, who is taking it to the extreme and working on mistletoe-based therapeutics, year-round.
With the track record of plant-derived drug companies, you can probably kiss this company auf Wiedersehen before long.
Just Don't It
People hate drug companies, mostly because they hate high prices for drugs. If the drugs were cheap, you'd hear less conspiratorial stories about Big Pharma killing people to make a buck, just like you hear very few stories about Five O' Clock vodka killing poor people (though that is one of the features of their product).
As a drug company, there is little you can do but let people vent, wait, and continue as you were. What you do NOT do is clapback in a press release.
Good grief. Hire a real PR team already.
Team Roast - Digital Madness
We come across many mysteries when perusing team pages. Sometimes we wonder how they thought a particular statement was cute. Other times wild fashion accessories get us in a tizzy.
Rarely does something as simple as a digit strike at the essence of our very being, but what in the world is that finger doing????
123 Fake Street
It's a tale as old as time - biotech company from outside America wants to pretend they have a US location, so they use the address of one of their only US employees. Sometimes they even have a small sales office with a real address.
What they do not normally do is make up an address entirely.
Abbkine, which seems to be based in Wuhan, China says their HQ is located at 3052 Stroop Hill Road, Apt 302 in Atlanta.
Only problem is that road doesn't seem to exist, if it ever did. Their own website is one of the only Google search results for Stroop Hill Rd.
Whoops!
Team Roast - Bearing the Weight
As mentioned earlier - wild fashion accessories are likely to catch our attention on team pages. This is especially true when they are so enormous, they bend the person over as this scarf is doing to the poor CEO.
You're the boss...downsize that thing!
The Money is in the Molecule
We often complain about tech types trying to change the biotech world. They can certainly change software, equipment, technologies used in research and things like that. But what they cannot do is get shocking wealthy.
Why?
As Nathan Benaich points out on Twitter, the money is in the molecule.
In biotech, you get paid massively if you own part of a successful drug product. Technologies function as a supplier to those winners.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but you're not going to become a billionaire that way and if we're being honest, that's the primary goal of most of the tech masters who try their hand at anything, biotech included.
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