My memory on the timing of “treeple digits” is also fuzzy, lost in the cloud of proactive videos with Christine Corrado. For all Nader’s mis-steps, mechanical engineer, not an MD, he could see the value from discussions he had with the chief science officer, business development etc.
With proper management, trial oversight and alliances vis a vis partnership etc what he saw was probably not a mirage but with the stumbling that is either in the past or would require a long runway to come to fruition.