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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. ”
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. ”
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. ”
We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail. ”
I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody. ”
The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting. ”
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. ”
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. ”
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. ”
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. ”