Martin Shkreli Admits He Messed Up: He Should've Raised Prices Even Higher

[Newsjock]

Source: Forbes

Martin Shkreli hasn’t changed.

If anything, the provocative pharmaceutical CEO — who became “the most hated man in America” earlier this year — thinks he didn’t go far enough when he hiked the price of Daraprim by more than 5,000% overnight.

“ I would have raised prices higher,” Shkreli vowed on Thursday, after being asked how he would re-do the past three months. “That’s my duty.”

Shkreli spoke at the Forbes Healthcare Summit during a 25-minute interview that was at turns fascinating, horrifying, and utterly compelling.


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[DonCoquixote]

1. what is scary is that these folk

Have gotten so used to the idea of "The public be damned, my responsibility is to the shareholders" that they can actually talk of killing and looting people as if it was the high moral act.

The problem will come in when the Chinese and Indians have gotten so good at playing capitalist that decide to discard most of us as shells, and yes, that includes the rich here, as well as a good portion of their own people. No need for Harvard or Wal Street or Silicon Valley anymore Shkreli.

[Drahthaardogs]

15. It's not an idea, it's the law.

Their first fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders, and...that's why we are all screwed!

[forest444]

2. This just in from Hell: the Devil admits he messed up.

He should have made the flames under Shkreli even hotter.

[Frustratedlady]

3. He reminds me of a young Donald Trump...

He surely has the ego to match, just needs more practice to become a famous jerk.

[Nye Bevan]

7. He's worse than Trump in my book.

Nobody was forced to gamble in Trump's casinos or buy apartments in his buildings. But profiting from sufferers of toxoplasmosis by price-gouging an essential medication for them is an order of magnitude worse.

[ESKD]

4. Too late.

There's already a similar compound that sells at $1 a pill.

It's not that difficult to make.

[Overseas]

5. K&R. These vultures need exposure. Perhaps we can protect drugs developed with our tax dollars.

If any federal funding was used for the R&D of any drugs, there should be a limit on the profit allowed-- even a generous 100% would be far less than Shkreli's ilk seek to impose.

[corkhead]

6. Doubling down on douchebaggery

It only takes just a few assholes like him to screw up what would otherwise be a much better experience for the rest of us as a members of a civilized society.

[Matthew28]

8. This is what evil looks like

No question about it.

[Judi Lynn]

12. He is the living incarnation. You're so right.

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[rusty quoin]

13. At least his hair is just like Adam Sandler in that God awful movie, Little Nicky.

[callous taoboy]

16. May he shit glass and piss vinegar.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. This guy was so foolish -- how foolish is he? --

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He tried to bribe Bernie Sanders.

[christx30]

11. That was hilarious

As was his reaction to Sanders's middle finger. I could see the temper tantrum in his tweets.

[Orrex]

10. I think I've figured out whose parents I'm going to prevent from meeting

as soon as I get that time machine built.

[Turbineguy]

14. He's probably on the

ISIS "Do Not Kill" list.

[gregcrawford]

17. That smug little shit...

... is going to go down in flames, and it can't happen soon enough.

[FiveGoodMen]

19. There are no flames after death

We get him now, or he gets away with it.

[Vinca]

18. Avoid anything from this asshole's company like the plague.