The New Yorker Magazine (№ 1st November 2021) by David Remnick (Editor In Chief)

Author:David Remnick (Editor In Chief) [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, politics, art, jounalism, magazine, non-fiction
Publisher: Conde Nast
Published: 2021-10-31T13:17:22+00:00

“But Patrick is different. He’s person-

ing for a savior may have to settle for in this industrial suburb, facing the high-ally experienced discrimination like this.”

the occasional pep talk from a distracted way, steps from the airport.

This February, the Wall Street Jour-

billionaire. “He’s like Bill Clinton. When

Soon-Shiong’s COVID effort, which

nal reported that Soon-Shiong was Bill Clinton is talking to you, you get is based in El Segundo, is run under considering selling the Times. The next the feeling that you’re the only person the ImmunityBio business line. In July, day, Nika, Patrick’s twenty-eight-year-in the world,” Scott King said. “He gives I visited ImmunityBio’s vaccine fac-old daughter, tweeted, “WSJ is 100% you the impression that he’s instantly tory, where genetically engineered virus wrong.” Journalists at the Times told there for you, all out, even though you cells are grown in stainless-steel tanks.

me that Nika, who runs an experimen-

know that can’t possibly be true.”

The facility looked a bit like a brew-

tal basic-income program in Compton

ery. “I always joke with Patrick that, if

and is a doctoral candidate at Oxford,

we don’t succeed, we’ll make the best

has taken an interest in the paper. “A In satellite photographs, the town of El Segundo looks like an abandoned I.P.A.,” Leonard Sender, the compa-light switch has gone off for me, in the game of SimCity. Some sixteen thou-ny’s C.O.O., said.

past year, of understanding the influ-

sand people live there, in a small rect-

Soon-Shiong manages activity at

ence that public perception and mass angle of tract housing, penned in by NantWorks virtually. Our first conver-narratives have over public-policy de-

LAX, an oil refinery, an industrial park, sation took place in June, 2021, after cisions,” she told me.

and a sewage-treatment plant. El Se-

L.A. County had loosened its mask re-

In December, 2020, Pearlstine left gundo is also the sandbox for the sec-quirements. Soon-Shiong thought that

the Times. Still, he remains fond of ond phase of Soon-Shiong’s business this was foolish. “The Delta variant Soon-Shiong, who, he said, had never career, which involves numerous ven-hasn’t hit here yet,” he said. “When it

interfered in editorial coverage. This tures gathered under an umbrella ordoes, with all these unmasked people,

May, Soon-Shiong announced that ganization called NantWorks.

it’ll spread like wildfire.” He was right.

Kevin Merida would succeed Pearl-

Inside the NantWorks galaxy, there When we spoke a month later, amid a stine. Merida, who is Black, previously is NantHealth, which builds diagnos-spiking caseload, the mask mandate

ran the multimedia platform the Un-

tic medical software; NantCloud, which had been reinstated. Soon-Shiong also defeated, at ESPN, which focussed on offers cloud-computing services; Im-predicted that the vaccines would be

the cultural intersection of race and munityBio, which develops immuno-less effective against the Delta variant;

sports. He told me that he thought the therapy treatments for cancer; and this proved true as well.

Times could reach a million subscrib-

NantStudios, a movie soundstage and

Soon-Shiong’s vaccine, like Johnson &

ers. “I wouldn’t have come here if I didn’t visual-effects studio. There are also Johnson’s, uses a neutralized adenovirus feel good about Patrick and Michele,” NantMobile, NantBioScience, Nant-to deliver a genetically engineered pay-

Merida said.

Energy, NantOmics, and NantGames.

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