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Post by harryx1 on Jan 28, 2020 11:36:08 GMT -5
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Post by mango on Jan 28, 2020 11:41:01 GMT -5
Nice find Harry. Wish I could attend this would be really cool.  |
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Post by uvula on Jan 28, 2020 17:45:46 GMT -5
$500/ticket.
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Post by cretin11 on Jan 28, 2020 17:50:17 GMT -5
I can think of some ways JDRF could really honor Al's legacy.
That's not meant to detract from the fact it's nice they are doing this gala. Wish i could attend it.
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Post by sayhey24 on Jan 28, 2020 18:32:03 GMT -5
Cretin - its never too late. Who knows, hope springs external and it would be the right thing to do for all PWDs.
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Post by mytakeonit on Jan 28, 2020 19:11:09 GMT -5
I'd go to it if you could bring John Lennon back to sing. BTW, my wife and I sleep with John and Yoko every night when we're home. (Figure that one out) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpLSN-D05Z8But, that's mytakeonit |
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Post by awesomo on Jan 28, 2020 19:23:38 GMT -5
Do they accept MNKD shares? |
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Post by agedhippie on Jan 28, 2020 19:41:15 GMT -5
Do they accept MNKD shares? More to the point will Mannkind be a sponsor of the event and at what level? It seems like the perfect opportunity to get in front of a lot of influential people and to have the perfect story. |
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Post by ktim on Jan 28, 2020 19:53:13 GMT -5
Do they accept MNKD shares? More to the point will Mannkind be a sponsor of the event and at what level? It seems like the perfect opportunity to get in front of a lot of influential people and to have the perfect story. I'll probably go since it is walking distance. So at least one won't be influential.  I'll have my Afrezza sales hat on, but gosh it can be hard to convince people to hear reason and look at data when it doesn't agree with the way they learned to view things in the past. |
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Post by mnkdfann on Jan 28, 2020 20:02:20 GMT -5
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Post by ktim on Jan 28, 2020 20:11:34 GMT -5
Hopefully they are some level of sponsor, and make sure they use all the tickets they get with employees that can be advocates... and not have all of them at one table. |
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Post by agedhippie on Jan 28, 2020 21:22:41 GMT -5
At $50k to 100k for the top level I would say any of them. This is a few hundred people most of who are there because they are actively involved in diabetes with family members, often their kids. Seriously - Mike can blow $9M on an unfocused TV ad, I hate to think what on that reality show Reversed, or with Damon Dash, or whatever they spent on Connor Daly (nice guy though he is), all trying to reach a receptive audience and failing miserably. I really think $100k to be the presenting sponsor and get the Afrezza story complete with the link to Al Mann in front of this audience where this is personal to them is blindingly obvious. |
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Post by mytakeonit on Jan 28, 2020 22:00:02 GMT -5
Since this Gala is to honor Al Mann, it seems pretty sure to be filled with his achievements ... especially Afrezza. As for paying $500 a ticket ... that's like a drop in the bucket. The expense comes in when you participate in the live and silent auctions ... but some really great things can be yours for a mere pittance.
But, that's mytakeonit
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Post by agedhippie on Jan 29, 2020 9:17:14 GMT -5
Since this Gala is to honor Al Mann, it seems pretty sure to be filled with his achievements ... especially Afrezza. As for paying $500 a ticket ... that's like a drop in the bucket. The expense comes in when you participate in the live and silent auctions ... but some really great things can be yours for a mere pittance. But, that's mytakeonit I wouldn't make the assumption that Afrezza will be front and center by default. Don't forget Minimed and Al's role in insulin pumps which at this point in time completely overshadows Afrezza in adoption and hence awareness. Medtronics (the buyer of Al Mann's Minimed pump and CGM business) has been the platinum sponsor at these galas before and I would expect them to snap up this chance to promote their 780G pump systems in front of this audience and claim it as the continuation of his work. That would also fit well with the JDRF artificial pancreas messaging. |
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Post by uvula on Jan 29, 2020 9:45:49 GMT -5
The purpose of every fundraising event put on by the jdrf is to raise money for the jdrf. Promoting Afrezza does nothing to advance this goal unless mnkd is a big sponsor, and mnkd can't afford to do this.
It is nice seeing Dr. Mann being honored. But the event is not going to have any effect on mnkd.
(For my detractors here, I am not being negative. Just being realistic.)
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I'll have my Afrezza sales hat on, but gosh it can be hard to convince people to hear reason and look at data when it doesn't agree with the way they learned to view things in the past.
