Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

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.

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.

The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.

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.