A year ago, Moderna Inc. was an unprofitable company with no marketed products and a promising but totally unproven technology. None of its experimental drugs and vaccines had ever completed a large-scale trial. Experts were divided on how well the mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine it was about to enter in a Phase III trial would stack up against

The legends of Silicon Valley are well known. HP, born in a garage. Steve Jobs, the domineering icon who reshaped industries. Mark Zuckerberg, whose social media platform engages 2.8 billion monthly active users around the world. Their successes, and many others’, fed back into the myth of Silicon Valley, boosting its reputation as the place to be