Charles River Labs是一家在药物测试领域占据绝对垄断地位的公司，年收入40亿美元，并通过收购猴子养殖业务来控制供应链。
Charles River Labs作为药物测试服务提供商，垄断了80%的生物技术公司业务，年收入达40亿美元，并收购猴子养殖企业以稳定供应链。 ✦ AI generated
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“Charles River Labs. It sounds like a venture capital firm.”
So, there's this one business called Charles River Labs. ... They do this as like research testing as a service for all the biotech companies so they don't have to do it themselves. ... They work with like 80% of biotech companies. ... absolute monopoly. They do 4 billion a year in revenue. ... They bought a monkey breeding business like a supply like part of the monkey supply chain cuz they were like so dependent on these wild swings. They bought one for $500 million just just to control the supply better to get make sure that they were not going to like lack lack the supply of these these NHPs.
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6:33island step in and they start providing these monkeys. So, the US kind of needs it and there's these big businesses in the US. So, there's this one business called Charles River Labs. Have you ever heard of this business? >> Charles River Labs. It sounds like a venture capital firm. >> Well, there is Charles River Ventures, not to be confused with them. So, Charles River Labs is like in Boston or
6:53something like this. They do this as like research testing as a service for all the biotech companies so they don't have to do it themselves. >> Okay. >> basically have all the like the mice and the rats and the dogs and the monkeys all there and they do this testing. They work with like 80% of biotech companies. Like it's crazy like the scale is pretty crazy. Even crazy, I think it's like 80%
7:12of drugs that go to market get tested with them. Like they have to say absolute monopoly. They do 4 billion a year in revenue. >> Yeah, it's a publicly traded company. >> They bought a monkey breeding business like a supply like part of the monkey supply chain cuz they were like so dependent on these wild swings. They bought one for $500 million just just to control the supply better
7:32to get make sure that they were not going to like lack lack the supply of these these NHPs. >> a monkey breeding business? >> Hey, I want to tell you about something pretty cool. We have a database of all of the business ideas that have been discussed on this podcast. So, hundreds of episodes, the team at HubSpot went through, they pulled out all the simple, relatable, interesting, profitable ideas
7:52that we have brainstormed, and they're all available for download for free. Just click the link in the description below. Thank you to our friends at HubSpot for sponsoring this podcast and putting together this free resource for you guys. Back to the show. So, it'll be like in Cambodia, or it'll be in Vietnam, and they basically so they they they they certify that they basically breed these four testing. They don't take them