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Why People Are Losing Faith in Healthcare
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Introduction: Scott Galloway on GLP-1s and Today's Guest
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In his intro monologue, Scott Galloway marks the show's 399th episode with characteristic wit — invoking the world's most photographed grizzly bear and a joke from The Sopranos — before pivoting to the substance. He makes his starkest contrarian claim: GLP-1 drugs are the most underhyped technology of the decade, more transformative than AI, which he considers the most overhyped. He has named GLP-1s his 'technology of the year' for two consecutive years in his annual predictions deck. His framing — that these drugs are 'scaffolding on our instincts,' compensating for biology that hasn't kept pace with industrial food production — sets the intellectual tone for everything that follows. The guest: David Ricks, Chair and CEO of Eli Lilly, the first healthcare company to reach a trillion-dollar valuation.
Eli Lilly was founded by a Civil War colonel who witnessed battlefield deaths from poor medical care and infections. His revolutionary idea: list every ingredient on the bottle and sign it himself — a commitment to quality and transparency that became the company's founding DNA 150 years before the FDA existed.
