
Wayne P. Rothbaum
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Oct 6, 2026
$IOVA $2 to $14 | Holy Grail of Cancer Therapy
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3:40AlvinGUEST
That's a leased drug.
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3:41AlvinGUEST
Bobby Dugan and Wayne Rothbaum.
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3:44AlvinGUEST
Dugan owns Summit.
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3:45AlvinGUEST
Rothbaum is one of the biggest investors in Iovance.
29 MINS LATER
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33:17AlvinGUEST
Bolt-on..." Who hears that five times in a minutes meeting? Nobody.
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33:21AlvinGUEST
They were telling us we're being bought out, and that's why I said they cost me a million bucks, because I could have sold and had it right there, and I waited for the buyout that never came, and then I rode it all the way down and bought it all the way down and all the way back up to get, you know, my healthy bunch of shares I have now.
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33:37AlvinGUEST
So to answer your question, is it designed to be bought out? Everything Wayne Rothbaum does is designed to be bought out.
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33:43AlvinGUEST
But keep in mind, they didn't realize they had a platform when he got involved.
Should You Work for a Small Biotech? The Risk Nobody Talks About in Life Science Careers! Ep. 1087
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19:05Dan SferaHOST
Because if Merck acquires the staff and in the book for blood and money, they actually talk about this exact scenario.
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19:14Dan SferaHOST
And Wayne Rothbaum, who was the...
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19:18Dan SferaHOST
He actually is one of the board members of Iovance Biotherapeutics.
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19:23Dan SferaHOST
But he was running the other company in that book, the rival of Bob Dugan.
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19:37Dan SferaHOST
And the acquiring company was going to take it over and get rid of those employees.
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19:43Dan SferaHOST
And these were key employees before they were able to vest.
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19:47Dan SferaHOST
And Wayne Rothbaum and the management team said, this is not fair.
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19:51Dan SferaHOST
So they made like a separate fund.