Sep. 19 at 12:13 AM
$PGEN 🚩 Randal Kirk Track Record + Share Sales
📊 Scorecard: 1 win, 1 mixed, 4 flops.
And now… Kapital Joe LLC (Kirk’s vehicle) just filed to sell 5M
$PGEN shares.
✅ New River (Vyvanse) – sold to Shire for
$2.6B (cash/stock exit, Kirk netted >
$1B)
⚠️ Intrexon → Precigen – IPO
$16 →
$70 → <
$5. Kapital Joe LLC handled ~6.36M shares in 2018 offering
❌ AquaBounty (GMO salmon) – decades of hype, now penny stock. Kirk/Third Security sold down ~12M shares in secondary; also moved ~8.2M shares via affiliate (TS AquaCulture LLC)
❌ Oxitec (engineered mosquitoes) – never scaled (no big liquidity event)
❌ Ziopharm (Alaunos) – collapsed, bankruptcy 2024. Shares moved in licensing deal (~278K shares)
❌ Okanagan (non-browning apple) – approved but flop (no notable sell data found)
https://www.forbes.com/profile/randal-j-kirk/