Creating Drugs With AI?

The Ultimate Insider’s Look at Big Pharma, the AI Healthcare Revolution, and Doing Business in China.

🎙️ About the Guest: Ben Wu
Ben Wu is a healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Trained as a pharmacist in Canada, he spent 14 years at Johnson & Johnson, eventually becoming a General Manager for the Greater China region. He has held CEO and VP roles across major pharmaceutical companies in the Asia Pacific. Having lived and worked extensively in both the East and the West, he brings an unmatched perspective on global healthcare, biotechnology, and cross-border business.

🎙️ About the Host: Leon Ge
Leon Ge is an ex-Googler, founder, investor and industrial systems thinker working across China, Europe and Southeast Asia. He focuses on materials, manufacturing, supply chains and the geopolitical shifts reshaping the real economy. He is also the founder and CEO of Tocco, where he is building an industrial intelligence platform.

In this episode, we cover:
- Why drug development relies so heavily on "luck" and the staggering realities behind bringing a new drug to market.
- How Big Pharma truly operates, why giants like J&J buy startups instead of doing their own R&D, and whether they are a "force for good".
- The massive disruption AI is bringing to the medical field—from taking the guesswork out of drug discovery to standardizing patient treatments and bringing down costs.
- The real differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine, and how the two are slowly merging in modern hospitals.
- What it's really like doing business in China as an outsider, the power of Guanxi, and why building deep, lifelong trust is essential.
- A pragmatic view on the future: Why the world is actually getting better, the reality of human longevity, and how AI is creating more opportunities for the next generation.

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