Patrick Degorce, CIO at Theleme Partners - The Millionaire Who Gave Moderna a Shot
Legions of investors piled into Moderna Inc. this year, drawn by its position as a front-runner in the global hunt for a coronavirus vaccine. Hedge-fund manager Patrick Degorce has been a believer for nearly a decade. The first time hedge-fund manager Patrick Degorce met with biotech company Moderna Inc., it was a hail-Mary effort to find a cure for his wife. It was 2011 and the woman who was his high-school sweetheart before marrying him had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Mr. Degorce enlisted several friends in his search for treatments, including experts in cancer and thoracic surgery. One had told him he should meet with Moderna, then a startup near Boston…
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