In this episode of Narrative Capital, a podcast from the BAM Network, host Beck Bamberger sits down with Jessica Sagers, Head of Communications at Deerfield, a New York-based healthcare investment firm. They explore the business value of a company’s story and how it shapes what investors, journalists, and the public understand about the work.
Jessica takes us inside Deerfield’s approach to investing, from its early-stage biopharma companies to its employee-led philanthropic work. She explains what people often miss about why big pharma buys smaller companies, how founders can communicate the promise of their science without getting ahead of the evidence, and what first-person stories bring to healthcare journalism.
It’s a conversation about telling the story of science that’s still unfolding and giving people a reason to care about what happens next.