astrazeneca,nson, merck, and also pfizer. they are the ones.panies, johnson & astrazeneca,k, they are giants in the pharmaceutical world. madera is a small company -- moderna is a small company, only 10 years old. how did you get here so quickly? stephane: we have a platform. a moleculeis we use --ween dna in your cells what we can do is we can basically use instructions. these enable us to do actually nine vaccines in the clinic before this one. this is why we are going to grow so fast. startedhe company was , you werego originally recruited to go on -- one year later, they made you the ceo. was that your plan? stephane: i was at the time running a public company, a global leader in diagnostics for infectious disease. i was before at eli lilly. of moderna was the founder and ceo of flagship ventures. he approached me and was like, come on the board and help us out. as i got to see the company and know the technology, i began to believe that it was possible that this company could be a big disruption to the entire pharmaceutical industry. ceo a