evidence: Fact Check: No, Pfizer CEO did not say his company aims to cut world population by 50% A video of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has gone viral where he can be heard talking about his company's goal of "reducing the number of people in the world." [...] In the video, Bourla can be heard saying, "I think that is really fulfilling of a dream that we had, together with my leadership team when we started in '19. The first week we met in January of '19 in California to set up the goals for the next five years, and one of them was by 2023 — we will reduce the number of people in the world by 50 per cent. I think today, this dream is becoming a reality."