Chris Przybyszewski raised over $150 million, founded five companies, and was fired four times. He also studied literature and founded a theatre before biotech. In this episode of Willing to Win, he gives the unedited account of taking US Biologic from a Lyme disease vaccine to a near-acquisition, with a poultry program and a chewable human flu vaccine in the pipeline.

Willing to Win is the biotech leadership podcast where founders and C-level executives break down what it actually took to build, raise, and exit, against the odds. Host Christian Rados runs Rados Recruiting, a Munich-based executive search firm placing C-level, interim, fractional, and board talent into Series A to C biotech companies across Europe and the USA. Because he is inside the biotech C-suite every week, these conversations reach what other biotech interviews miss.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Why three failed companies and four firings taught Chris more than his wins did
• How a literature degree and running a theatre shaped the way he leads and pitches biotech investors
• The six pillars every biotech founder has to see at once, or the product never reaches market
• How investors really read a pitch, and why honesty beats confidence in due diligence
• When a founder-CEO has to step aside, and why most realize it too late

Chapters:

00:00 Literature, theatre, and the path that was never planned

02:22 Following opportunity instead of a career map07:30 Knowing when discipline means walking away

17:40 The app company mistake he had already learned not to make23:10 Looking successful versus being successful

27:15 When the founder is no longer the right CEO

29:33 Building US Biologic from a Lyme vaccine

39:13 One platform, three companies, three vaccine programs

46:09 The six pillars of biotech product development

49:12 Why anything done deeply has to be hard

Guest: Chris Przybyszewski on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisprzybyszewski/

Hiring at the top of a biotech company is the difference between a missed year and a breakout one. If you are a founder or board member scaling a leadership team in a Series A to C biotech, Christian Rados places the people who change the trajectory. Book a confidential search consultation: https://calendly.com/radosrecruiting/lets-build-a-dreamteam

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