Danish businessman and co-founder of Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium (the original Novo before the Nordisk merger), who was forced out by Hagedorn and started a rival insulin company that competed with Nordisk for decades before the 1989 merger.
Founded Novo as a direct competitive response to being fired from Nordisk — creating the parallel insulin production company that competed globally for 60 years before merging — making the Novo Nordisk merger the resolution of a founder conflict that began with a firing.
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