Founding Moderna was Noubar Afeyan from Armenia, who started the company in the United States in 2010. BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer in the vaccine s development, was founded by the husband-and-wife team of Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci, both Turkish immigrants from Germany.
Over the next 10 to 20 years, Korea is expected to go through one of the most profound changes in its corporate history — the transition of ownership in key businesses via intergenerational transfers.
Korea will overtake France and Italy and ascend to the world’s top seven economies by 2040 with its per capita GDP exceeding $70,000 if the Asian country succeeds in overhauling its industrial structure and embraces more foreign talent, according to McKinsey & Company.
McKinsey & Company dismissed skepticism over the future of generative artificial intelligence (AI), saying the technology is unlikely to follow in the footsteps of Amazon’s hi.