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ZB's Challenge post acquisition of Paragon 28

31 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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After Zimmer acquired Paragon 28, the speaker questions whether Zimmer can maintain Paragon's rapid product release pace. Paragon launched products constantly over the past decade, but Zimmer's size and culture may slow that down significantly.

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You know, for with Zimmer, 1 1 usually equals like 1.1. You know, Paragon was able to for so many years, maybe not so much in recent years, but for many years historically, last decade, let's say, they came out with so many products in such a rapid succession that won't be able to— I'd be very surprised if that pace of new product development was kept up at Zimmer for a variety of, of reasons, sort of historically neglected subspecialty or historically neglected kind of sub, subspecialty of surgeons. And they kind of went to them and said like, we love you more than anybody else, but you can't like really do that at Zimmer.