David A. Ricks
CEO of Eli Lilly
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Aug 31, 2026
11AM Hour: Exclusive Interviews with the CEOs of Goldman Sachs and Eli Lilly 8/31/26
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Sara EisenHOST
I mean, what does Eli Lilly look like? Obviously right now it's GLP-1s and that's dominant, but what sort of company are you trying to build here in the long term?

David RicksGUEST
Yeah, well, of course, you know, Montero and Zephown have been huge drivers of our success.

David RicksGUEST
Right now, about 65% of the company is in the obesity, weight loss, diabetes space.
Sara EisenHOST
I mean, since we're at G20, do you think of the GLP-1 revolution? It's obviously incredible for health, but do you think of it as an economic transformation as well, just in terms of how much it will impact things like insurance and consumer behavior, labor perhaps?
Why People Are Losing Faith in Healthcare
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Scott GallowayHOST
Talk a little bit about those opposing forces and your view more holistically about it.

David RicksGUEST
So ju-just, uh, f- ground in facts, it is true, uh, I think the list price of the highest price form of Zepbound or Mounjaro is ten eighty-six, so one thousand eighty-six dollars.

David RicksGUEST
Um, we have lowered, uh, and Lilly launched this program called Lilly Direct almost two years ago, which basically, um, the healthcare system, without going down a rabbit hole unless you want to, you know, is this system where the biggest actors get the lowest price and the individuals pay the most.
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Scott GallowayHOST
In your mind, what is Lilly's competitive advantage as a culture, as a company? And when you speak to shareholders and say, "Okay, it's up five-fold, but stick with us, there's more running room because we are, you know, we are great at X, Y, and Z," how do you differentiate from the rest of your competitors?
The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks
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Derek ThompsonHOST
Like, how did this drug category get kicked off through the lens of Eli Lilly?

David RicksGUEST
Yeah, well, it-- I think this is like great cocktail party intro because I, I get this question all the time.

David RicksGUEST
Um, and everyone knows the story, and I think you've even told the story of the HeLa monsters, and we'll get to that in a second.

David RicksGUEST
But the real first, like, scientific breakthrough that happened was in the early '70s.

David RicksGUEST
There were actually two papers that looked at something that was called, at that point, the incretin effect.

David RicksGUEST
And now incretin is what we call this class of hormones or, or proteins that your gut excretes, like GLP-1.

David RicksGUEST
Um, and what was noticed was that if you ingested food or calories of any kind, um, orally through your GI tract versus intravenously, there were very different, uh, amounts of, um, that nutrient that, that would spike in your blood and would be absorbed or not absorbed effectively.
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