India’s Mazumdar-Shaw Is On A Mission to Save Lives

Known as India’s ‘Queen of Biotech’, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw built Biocon from a rented garage almost 50 years ago. Today, her multibillion-dollar company is one of the world’s biggest producers of insulin, and a leading force in biosimilars. As she looks at handing over her life’s work to successors, Mazumdar-Shaw talks to Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin about her pioneering journey as a female entrepreneur in India, her mission to deliver life-saving therapies to patients and what she believes India must do to tackle an AI future. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Cold open intro 00:02:15 - Biocon’s profit model and mission to expand access to life-saving medicines 00:04:30 - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s almost 50-year entrepreneurial journey with Biocon 00:07:12 - Mazumdar-Shaw’s vision of biotech sovereignty embedded in AI for India 00:10:31 - India’s reliance on Chinese key starting materials and APIs 00:13:20 - Biologics and cancer therapies 00:13:57 - GLP-1s and investment prospects 00:16:13 - Becoming the world’s No. 1 insulin producer 00:18:46 - Biocon campus tour and looking back to where Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw started 00:20:08 - Succession and legacy -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos from Bloomberg Markets & Finance: https://tinyurl.com/ysu5b8a9 Visit http://www.bloomberg.com for business news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, features, profiles and more. Connect with Bloomberg Television on: X: https://twitter.com/BloombergTV Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloombergTelevision Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloombergtv/ Connect with Bloomberg Business on: X: https://twitter.com/business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloombergbusiness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloombergbusiness/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bloombergbusiness?lang=en Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bloomberg/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bloomberg-news/ More from Bloomberg: Bloomberg Radio: https://twitter.com/BloombergRadio Bloomberg Surveillance: https://twitter.com/bsurveillance Bloomberg Politics: https://twitter.com/bpolitics Bloomberg Originals: https://twitter.com/bbgoriginals Watch more on YouTube: Bloomberg Technology: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergTechnology Bloomberg Originals: https://www.youtube.com/@business Bloomberg Quicktake: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergQuicktake Bloomberg Espanol: https://www.youtube.com/@bloomberg_espanol Bloomberg Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@BloombergPodcasts