Two founders of Moderna and one top investor made it on Forbes’s list of the wealthiest people in the United States, following the company’s development of one of the initial COVID-19 vaccines distributed worldwide.
Moderna’s co-founder and chairman Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and board member Robert Langer, and Moderna investor Timothy Springer were featured on the prestigious Forbes 400 list.
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Springer was placed in the 176th slot, with a net worth of $5.9 billion. Langer ranked 222nd, with a net worth of $4.9 billion, while Ageyan was 10 spaces above him in the 212th slot with a net worth of $5 billion.
Jeff Bezos was in the No. 1 slot with $201 billion in net worth, followed by Elon Musk at $190.5 billion and Mark Zuckerberg at $134.5 billion, respectively.
Both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, the companies with the first approved coronavirus vaccines in the U.S., profited tremendously from the widespread use of their vaccine. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson pledged not to profit from their vaccines.
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The Moderna vaccine was approved for emergency usage last year by the Food and Drug Administration. The company is still working to obtain full approval for the vaccine.
