Noubar Afeyan
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Noubar Afeyan reads as The Pioneer because his career, as Flagship Pioneering founder and Moderna co-founder, has been defined by venturing where established playbooks do not yet exist. His leadership style, evident in his appearance on The David Rubenstein Show, treats the unproven not as risk to be avoided but as territory to be systematically explored. He builds toward possibilities others have not yet named, and brings organisations along with him.
“We leap into things that are not yet known to be viable, and we try to make them real. So this leaping inevitably you leap to places where there's no value.”
“The notion of parallel entrepreneurship was why can't you simultaneously think about deeply about major new innovations and organizing companies all at the same time.”
“If we could do that systematically, over and over again, that is such a defiant thought to conventional wisdom that says rare things only happen rarely.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Noubar Afeyan”
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