Man buys HIV drug supply and the price goes up through the roof

[Kat S.]

He just did another AMA on Reddit.  It went as expected.  One of the other poignant parts of the AMA besides the doctor breaking it down Barney-style to Shkreli as to why a 5000% price inflation of a drug is a bad thing for everybody was when someone called him a "Fu** boy".  Shkreli replied, "No U", but I can't help to think that got under his skin a little.

But to Shkreli, it's all fun and games.  He's a millionaire, he is in charge of a small company, and probably most important to him, he's famous.  Even if it's infamy and notoriety, he's famous, and that makes him, in his mind, super successful.

Worse, he also thinks of himself as a successful IRL troll.  He gets a kick from irritating people not realizing that if he doesn't wise up from his antics, he's going to become a modern day parable as to why trolling IRL is a stupid idea.

Shkreli seems to have trouble in social interaction in general.  Whether it's from a misdiagnosed/undiagnosed problem, him just being a painfully socially awkward and inept person, or him relishing in being an A-hole because he has a terrible personality, at the end of the day I can't imagine him having proud parents/guardians that he talks to.

At the rate he's going, Shkreli is going to die alone because I can't imagine some good woman in her right mind dating this guy.  If he does manage to snag someone, I can't imagine things ending well for him or his date.

[RavynousHunter]

He'd probably promise her that he'd foot the bill for dinner and a movie, only to go around and charge her "maintenance fees" equal to six times the cost of the original date, gas included.

[Kat S.]

He'd probably promise her that he'd foot the bill for dinner and a movie, only to go around and charge her "maintenance fees" equal to six times the cost of the original date, gas included.

I don't think it would even get that far if his date happens to be a good woman.  Because of his notoriety, when one lady by the name of Eve Peyser was matched on Tinder to him and proceeded to talk to him, the conversation came off as well as you would expect.  I don't think Shkreli knows how to talk to people, and with the money he has, he probably thinks he doesn't have to.

In some ways he reminds me of the Lolcow Chris-chan.  He keeps insisting that his version of things is the "real truth" of the situation on hand, and he's really just a misunderstood person and not the abhorrent person people think he is.

[guizonde]

He'd probably promise her that he'd foot the bill for dinner and a movie, only to go around and charge her "maintenance fees" equal to six times the cost of the original date, gas included.

I don't think it would even get that far if his date happens to be a good woman.  Because of his notoriety, when one lady by the name of Eve Peyser was matched on Tinder to him and proceeded to talk to him, the conversation came off as well as you would expect.  I don't think Shkreli knows how to talk to people, and with the money he has, he probably thinks he doesn't have to.

In some ways he reminds me of the Lolcow Chris-chan.  He keeps insisting that his version of things is the "real truth" of the situation on hand, and he's really just a misunderstood person and not the abhorrent person people think he is.

it's not my fault everybody thinks i'm a bastard, it's theirs for not understanding me!

[niam2023]

I've been talking to Shkreli on Twitter.

...its almost fun to take delight in the sheer misfortune he's managed to bring upon himself and then confront him with it all.

[guizonde]

I've been talking to Shkreli on Twitter.

...its almost fun to take delight in the sheer misfortune he's managed to bring upon himself and then confront him with it all.

niam, you sociopath...

(sorry, i had to)

[Cerim Treascair]

I'm interested in this out of sheer trainwreck syndrome now...

[dpareja]

Sorry about the necro...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/turing-drug-price-1.3337195

Hey, remember when he said he'd cut the price?

After weeks of criticism from patients, doctors and even other drugmakers for hiking a life-saving medicine's price more than fifty-fold, Turing Pharmaceuticals is reneging on its pledge to cut the $750-per-pill price.

Instead, the small biotech company says it's reducing the price for hospitals by up to 50 per cent for its Daraprim, which treats a rare parasitic infection that mainly strikes pregnant women and HIV patients.

Yeah. At least Imprimis is apparently keeping its pledge to produce the drug for cheap.

[Askold]

I remember reading an article about Mr. Douchebag's company stock suffering but as I tried to find it I instead stumbled upon this:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/shkreli-says-price-increases-for-turing-drug-matter-little

Turns out that not only does he refuse to drop his prizes he has also bought another company and plans to do the same with a few other drugs... His defense is that this will only harm a few people and government has all kind of safety regulations to prevent everyone from doing the same with all the drugs but the way healthcare system is built in USA it is possible to find some drugs that can have their prizes raised massively and you can still get away with it...

Shkreli is also the new chief executive officer of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc., after leading an investor group that bought a majority of the near-bankrupt biotechnology company. The shares were trading at less than $1 until last week, when the company disclosed Nov. 18 that Shkreli’s group had bought the stake. The stock was trading at $26.63 at the close in New York.

The move is not an attempt to reverse-merge Turing into a public company, Shkreli has said. Instead, he’s in talks to acquire three separate drugs, one of which is already approved by U.S. regulators, that could fit into the KaloBios’s portfolio, he said Wednesday. He also plans to develop KaloBios’s lenzilumab for a rare form of leukemia with no effective treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

[ironbite]

Wonder how that SEC investigation is going for him.

Ironbite-probably not good.

[mellenORL]

Dude is literally a bridge troll.

[I am lizard]

Can someone shoot him? Preferably before he can do more harm.

Edit: legally of course as do not support such actions, although hypothetically if he did die I wouldn't be shedding any tears.

[Sigmaleph]

The problem is not Shkreli per se, it's the system that allows the shit he does to be profitable. If he doesn't do it, someone else will.

[niam2023]

Can someone shoot him? Preferably before he can do more harm.

With the amount of raw hatred he's been garnering, its only a matter of time before someone tries it.

I'm pulling for the gunman.

[I am lizard]

Can someone shoot him? Preferably before he can do more harm.

With the amount of raw hatred he's been garnering, its only a matter of time before someone tries it.

I'm pulling for the gunman.

It's not even a matter of hate, the guy is legit putting live in danger with his shit.