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Roivant’s Matthew Gline On Success, Failure And Finding An R&D Sweet Spot

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

Roivant achieved its greatest-ever success in selling RVT-3101 to Roche for $7.1bn – but not all investors are yet convinced by its unorthodox business model, and will be watching how it re-invests its new windfall.

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Roivant is an unconventional biopharma company and its leader, Matthew Gline, is an unconventional CEO, so it was fitting that the location of our interview was similarly unorthodox: the Wild Monkey bar, a dimly lit cocktail lounge in London’s Waldorf Hilton.

The bar is repurposed every year for few days in mid-November as the press center at the Jefferies Healthcare conference,...

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