What's 50,000?
Sometimes, I really regret glancing at my FiercePharma mailers. Yesterday's top headline?
Whenever a Really Big Number comes into play, I feel I need some extra context. What's 51,500, relative to other companies or scientific organizations?
Two-and-a-half Harvards (21,000), or 0.8 Ohio States (64,000)
22 Vertex Pharmaceuticals (~2300)
114 U.S. Congresses (441 members)
About the number of sci-jobs "saved" by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (50,000)
Roughly the population of Cupertino, CA (58,000, Home of Apple, Inc.), and...
...12,500 "lean" biotech start-ups (Perlstein Labs, 4)
"Pfizer's post-megamerger job cutting record? 51,500 jobs in 7 years"
(P.S. They're talking about the Pfizer / Wyeth merger, tracking 2008-2014)
Whenever a Really Big Number comes into play, I feel I need some extra context. What's 51,500, relative to other companies or scientific organizations?Two-and-a-half Harvards (21,000), or 0.8 Ohio States (64,000)
22 Vertex Pharmaceuticals (~2300)
114 U.S. Congresses (441 members)
About the number of sci-jobs "saved" by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (50,000)
Roughly the population of Cupertino, CA (58,000, Home of Apple, Inc.), and...
...12,500 "lean" biotech start-ups (Perlstein Labs, 4)
