VICE interviews pharmaceutical bad-boy, Martin Shkreli

This is a bit of a one-sided interview since it's just Martin Shkreli talking about himself and his rise to fame. But it's interesting nonetheless to see this side of him compared to what's been reported about him in the news. Even though he's worth a reported $45 million and owns the only copy of Wu-Tang's $2 million album, he seems to live in a rather humble apartment in Manhattan (at least from what we can see in this video).

In the video he explains his reasoning for raising the price of a drug that treats patients with HIV up about 5000% and gives some insight into how this was supposed to only hurt big companies. He claims to want to help those who can't afford his drug. All you need to do is email him, but I haven't heard any successful stories of that going through just yet. I would imagine his inbox lately has been filled with emails of hate.

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