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Date: 2020-06-09 14:59
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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Bet he makes shedloads of cash and doesn't have to go out and pretend he is saving the world any more.

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2020-06-09 14:41 Edward C. Holmes open

@virushunter and metabiota have been quiet through all of this. Is he just counting his cash at home?
2020-06-09 14:43 Andrew Rambaut open

Didn't Metabiota transition into a risk consultant for insurance companies?
2020-06-09 14:54 Kristian G. Andersen open

"Metabiota's models incorporate the latest biological, socioeconomic, political and environmental data. We have built the largest infectious disease catalog in the industry, including a 1 million-year stochastic event catalog informed byover 20 million simulations. Validated by experts in the fields of epidemiology and data science, it is the only modelof its kind to capture both high-probability and low-probability events" God, sometimes I love America.
2020-06-09 14:59 Andrew Rambaut

Bet he makes shedloads of cash and doesn't have to go out and pretend he is saving the world any more.
2020-06-09 15:01 Kristian G. Andersen open

Made it. [shared file(s): Power Couple.png]
2020-06-09 15:02 Andrew Rambaut open

Can you imagine how smug he must look now?
2020-06-09 15:04 Kristian G. Andersen open

I can...
2020-06-09 15:37 Robert F. Garry open

"Is he just counting his cash at home?" Yes $30M IPO several years back, plus all the "PREDICT" money - subtractsome minor fraction of that to buy off whatever shares Fair "owned." Wolfe has been paying himself an executivesalary north of $1M per year since at least 2006 plus lucrative bonuses. Little known fact - Fair and Wolfe tried torecruit me back in 2008 - one of the selling points - win a grant get a 20% bonus off of the gross. So $3M dollar granta kool $600K bonus :parrot:. I still remember a comment Eric Lander made about this several years back. Legal maybe - ethical> you decide. IMO Meta's models are pure bunk - about like the whole Global Virome Projectsham [BTW I think that pic is pretty much as sham too - just my opinion]. But, you know that the only way that a thugmakes money is through "insurance." Ask most of the store owners in any ethnic section of any big city. It wasinevitable that Wolfe would find this path.

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