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The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.
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Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.
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We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.
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I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
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Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.
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The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.
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A lot of people said this was impossible. 'You can't build biotech for $50,000. You can't build anything for $50,000.' Well, that's no longer true, and we're proving it.
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I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.
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Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.
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If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.
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I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'
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Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.
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The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.
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We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.
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We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.
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A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.
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I thought that biology and macro economies, especially, was fairly related between the systems level, and so I graduated the university with a degree in Genetic Engineering and Economies, and I moved to San Francisco to try out how to make money with just the ideas itself.
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It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.
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We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types of bio startups and creating a much-needed engine to drive Silicon Valley into the next century.
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Put your life into it - it's not that hard.
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IndieBio's capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.
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Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.
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You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.
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The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.
Arvind Gupta