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Aug 2021
43m 50s

a16z Bio + Health #17: Proteomics and Pr...

Andreessen Horowitz
About this episode
  • Founding story of Nautilus [1:43]
  • Why was the Nautilus approach to proteomics a breakthrough? [6:12]
  • Why a startup instead of academic research? [9:57]
  • How to pick a good cofounder (it's not that different from choosing a spouse) [15:32]
  • Advice for academic founders: how to work with VCs  [21:14]
  • The tipping points of scale & the challenges of finding good talent  [25:17]
  • Is proteomics really a gamechanger? [30:49]
  • How is Nautilus bringing it to market? [34:17]
  • What Nautilus can learn from Illumina and genomics [37:32]
  • Looking ahead to the next 10 years [41:26]

This is an excerpt from the a16z Bio show on Clubhouse, where we explore all the ways that biology is technology. To catch full episodes of the show, follow the a16z Club on Clubhouse.

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