How Ozempic helped an unassuming businessman became the most influential person of 2023
Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen’s mornings begin the same way: a 6.30am wake-up and a bowl of overnight oats, before driving his electric BMW iX to work in Bagsværd, 12km north west of Copenhagen. It is 8am by the time he arrives at Novo Nordisk’s HQ – a building designed to resemble an insulin molecule – where his office looks out onto a lush green empire; one that this year became the most valuable in the world.