When VCs hand out mega-rounds to Vir and Gos­samer, are they bet­ting on the jock­ey or the horse?

Fol­low­ing a pe­ri­od of un­prece­dent­ed re­turns for bio­phar­ma in­vestors, flush VCs are sink­ing big­ger and big­ger rounds of cash in­to com­pa­nies whose pipelines are still in their in­fan­cy. Tak­ing this trend to a new lev­el is an in­creas­ing­ly pop­u­lar move to back biotech ex­ec­u­tives who are known to be star per­form­ers with mega-rounds ris­ing north of $100 mil­lion – even if their pipelines lack a star pro­gram.

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