Brought together BD leads across bio pharma companies, founders with experience navigating partnerships with bio pharma, and early stage founders to discuss all things partnerships this Wednesday at ARE for the most recent
@bitsinbio
event.
Thank you to Jon Weiss, Martin
I don’t think
@aarthir
and
@sriramk
realise how powerful it is for Indian college kids like me to see two South Indian people leading some of the most interesting conversations of today with global thought leaders....to learn from people like this through Twitter at 21 is a gift
Learning science vs learning how scientists think:
I've come across books that have tried to do this (doesn't work that well) but this one was written by one of the greats at Bell Labs, who has clearly practiced what he preaches and knows how to communicate it well
Interesting: Approximately 0.2% of ~1.7 million animal species have had their genome sequenced with major variations in % sequenced across clades and phyla
Has anyone seen an estimate for what portion of global biodiversity has been sequenced?
I'm particularly interested in protein-coding sequences. How many of the world's total CDSs have we read?
Also interested in the species level. How many species have complete genomes?
Some words by
@nayafia
I’m thinking about this 4th of July week.
Anyone who is an immigrant to this country knows there are few places that offer the abundance of opportunity available here despite its well discussed faults.
Grateful for all that America has offered me.
If some us were to plan a Bio x ML Hackathon this fall in NYC who would be interested? 🧬💻👀
Feedback from VC's, founders and operators and interesting provided data sets- reach out if being involved in any part of this interests you! Will share more details closer to date.
I need more friends in tech and crypto bc🥲
At a friends party last night and all I wanted to do was check my bid for
@SHL0MS
but how do I explain to them that I need to borrow a laptop and sit in a room for hours to make sure I buy a fractionalized part of a Lambo
Thrilled to share sign up details (linked below) for Bio x ML hackathon, BioHack NYC, on November 11th hosted by
@join_ef
More information on judges, compute, and data sets coming🧬
If some us were to plan a Bio x ML Hackathon this fall in NYC who would be interested? 🧬💻👀
Feedback from VC's, founders and operators and interesting provided data sets- reach out if being involved in any part of this interests you! Will share more details closer to date.
I’ve wanted to move to San Francisco for a while and it’s been even better than I imagined. Mostly because of the people but by the way it also looks like this
Excited to chat with Reshma Shetty, co-founder and COO of
@Ginkgo
later this week
What questions would you have for her about synthetic biology, the bio-economy, her journey as a PhD student turned founder, Ginkgo and more?
Of the founders I spoke to this past month, nearly every one had left the US for India to start their co due to immigration/ visa issues
but then nearly every one returned to the US as their startup scaled & visa was approved etc
NYC tip stop taking ubers and take yellow cabs your bank account will thank you
Friday night Uber from east village to fidi: $58, Yellow cab: $11 + $3 tip
Tb to when Uber marketed itself on being the cheaper option- if you’re in NYC seriously just take yellow cabs
Just minted my first NFT from
@LonelyHeartNFTs
🎈
The discord has been beyond active & the mods have been supportive of answering all my beginner questions.
Biggest thing I learned today: the level of community involvement in this space is truly incredible
Just read this by
@PraxisSociety
and I'm blown away
Sums up the reason I talk to everyone about growing up in Singapore. A future of technological innovation, art, diverse culture, built in nature is possible, and can be done even better in the future.
Anecdotal but interesting paradox: difficult to start a company in the US if you’re an immigrant but difficult to run a company in India as it grows?
Will have to look more into what all the reasons are for this
🧬Starting a coworking series for biotech folks in NYC with
@shelbynewsad
. This first one’s going to be on February 24th near Flatiron.
Sign up below & you’ll also be added to an email list for upcoming biotech events and more coworking opportunities in the city!
Just someone in my early 20’s that’s chronically online that tried
@MightyApp
and I’m almost mad at how much slower chrome feels now
run don’t walk if you also have 50 tabs open at all times (Haven’t fully decided if $35/month’s worth it for me yet but it seriously works)
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of interviewing N.R. Narayana Murthy, a titan of the global Tech industry living an ethically led life. We discuss: his journey to success & all things India. Link to the full interview:
🧬Looking forward to moderating this discussion on AI in Drug Discovery at BIO in early June! You'll be hearing from a panel with depth of experience building at the frontier of AI and Biology:
-Stacie Calad-Thomson at
@biosymetrics
prior but recently joined as BD lead
@nvidia
Thanks to
@huggingface
@abscibio
@VialTrials
@runpod_io
@join_ef
for their support towards the upcoming Bio x ML hackathon in NYC💻⚕️🧬
Data sets, GPU, and outlined problem spaces provided.
Help me by sharing this with folks working across software, biology and healthcare that
🧬Thrilled to shared this incredibly engaging conversation with
@reshmapshetty
the cofounder and COO of
@Ginkgo
on
-her journey founding Ginkgo
-trends & favourite big ideas in Synbio
-the significance of bio manufacturing
-encouraging policy shifts for the bio economy
Excited to chat with Reshma Shetty, co-founder and COO of
@Ginkgo
later this week
What questions would you have for her about synthetic biology, the bio-economy, her journey as a PhD student turned founder, Ginkgo and more?
Thatha (grandpa) worked at the same healthcare company for 38 years and the other day I found out at his retirement speech he said
“Even if I had the choice,
I would pick the past 38 years all over again”
@SamoBurja
Hmm is this economics or 0 sum thinking
For example, because Indian Americans were able to come to the US for opportunities in the past that didn't exist in India at the time, India today benefits and is wealthier because of capital & networks flowing back to the country
@bitsinbio
NYC edition of technical lightning talks is here! Thank you to our speakers and to
@persona_nyc
for hosting us. RSVP at the link below.
Can't wait to see you all there🧬
I wonder what the space industry or VC or fintech version of this type of sentence is
Tell me your constantly repeated but still relevant and interesting facts pls I want to hear
Also: it’s still mostly guys on these discord’s which is a shame given the future is being built around web3
Anyone but esp if you’re a woman & want to learn more about anything crypto/web3 DM me! I’m still new but I’ll send any resources I have
Start by following
@web3baddies
Just minted my first NFT from
@LonelyHeartNFTs
🎈
The discord has been beyond active & the mods have been supportive of answering all my beginner questions.
Biggest thing I learned today: the level of community involvement in this space is truly incredible
Excited to share more details on Hackathon judges! Thank you to
@lizbwood
@kulesatony
@patricksmalone
for judging and all the mentors that have signed up to support hackers.
Just under 2 weeks till kick off event at
@huggingface
💻Sign up here:
Thrilled to share sign up details (linked below) for Bio x ML hackathon, BioHack NYC, on November 11th hosted by
@join_ef
More information on judges, compute, and data sets coming🧬
Join us for the next
@bitsinbio
event on product across biotech and software.
Excited to hear from product leaders working at startups that are at the frontier of this intersection. Panelists include:
-Vinnay Subbiah, Director of product
@benevolent_ai
-Karl Leswing, ED of
@bitsinbio
and
@indbio
panel earlier this week:
the varied experiences of the panelists across academia, startups, ML and investing made for an incredibly engaging conversation on the current landscape, areas of promise and key bottlenecks across Bio x ML today.
RSVP below for the upcoming
@bitsinbio
panel with
@indbio
on ML across modalities!
Excited to hear from our panelists:
🧬
@katieelink
: Lead, ML for Healthcare and Biomedicine
@huggingface
🧬Dr. Mandana Manzari Honu: Head of BD
@kaleidoscopebio
🧬Michael Norsen: Principal,
@dr_alphalyrae
Unrelated but favorite consistent lesson of the pandemic for me is the number of '*unless' moments it unlocked globally
Commuting daily to vaccine development to education- there's reason to question the norms around how most things are typically done
"29 years after this book was written, we are bearing the fruits of those that dared to search for therapeutics beyond nature's search space."
Found myself writing paragraphs to the author while reading this book, so collected my learnings here
After talking to some people about this the consensus seems to be that:
💡people want annual Spotify wrapped statistics for websites where they spend time (Netflix, YouTube,
@replit
)
💡but not for websites where they spend money (DoorDash, Amazon)
I wonder why more app's don't follow Spotify wrapped's lead I feel like most people would be just as interested in finding out their annual Netflix or Doordash patterns
I had the privilege of speaking with
@anubhamane
, founder of one of India's largest tech upskilling nonprofit programs
@Girlscript1
How did she build programs reaching 500K+ students across 65 cities? On the future of technical education & success against the odds listen below
New friends + seeing so many people IRL for the first time thank you to
@hello_we3
@hellosunshine
@MAVIONworld
for making this happen
Spoke to Dayoung about her creative process, was blown away by her attention to detail. Also she grew up in Tamil Nadu so extra love for that💗
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of interviewing N.R. Narayana Murthy, a titan of the global Tech industry living an ethically led life. We discuss: his journey to success & all things India. Link to the full interview:
@AmazonFresh
has serious competition, the guy delivering my food from
@CornershopUS
just called me to ask if I still want 🍌s in my order bc they only have the green bananas in store... it’s seems silly but about to double my tip this customer service is 👏🏾👏🏾
Idea for every creator on the internet: create a channel where you translate your videos into Hindi/Spanish versions of your content & you will likely 10x your views and $$ with time
India is estimated to have Youtube’s largest active user base today with ~467M users
Used
@CornershopUS
for the first time today... groceries delivered to my apartment in under 2 hours during a NYC snowstorm?? Incredible & will be using again
@aarthir
@sriramk
Had the chance to interview Narayana Murthy 2 days ago on campus through the Economics Mentorship Program and India series I started on campus- taking notes on everything you guys are doing!! Hopefully will be able to interview you on clubhouse one day😊
Discovered this incredibly thorough reading List by
@gaby_goldberg
a few weeks ago. Not only do these articles include a lot of the resources I used early on but will help you better understand what communities and the world around crypto can look like.
Every once in a while I think of my AP Physics teacher who went to MIT on scholarship, had a long career in finance, wrote a NY times oped on AIG's mistakes when he quit his job there, bought Mark Twains house, and then worked at my high school for a rumored $0 salary
Sometimes I wish I could relive growing up in Singapore as kid knowing what I know about biology and city design now marveling at everything instead of being like great here comes the bus I need to take to my Kumon class and here's the park I play with my neighbor
At breakfast with my friends entire family🥲 best part of being an immigrant is all your friends families that fully take you in bc your family is so far away
Honestly don’t think they know how much it means to me
The joy of finding a video from a guy in Kerala with <5,000 views explaining step by step the niche seemingly unfixable problem in your code is actually unmatched
A founder recently asked how to quickly get up to speed on the implications of the Inflation Act on Medicare. Working with commercial teams, I’ve had to become comfortable summarizing regulatory policy.
4 charts I made a while ago, that I shared to answer his questions:
All things aside, California is objectively the most everyday beautiful place I’ve been to in the US
Grabbing coffee before work and my entire street is full of purple flowers and Palm trees and the perfect sun to breeze ratio
Finally watched Oppenheimer yesterday after hearing so many mixed reviews and honestly loved it. I don’t doubt the general interest in superconductors over the last few weeks is related.
Currently in Delhi and among the oldest buildings in this city is Jama Masjid, a mosque built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (emperor behind the Taj Mahal as well).
The second largest mosque in India & built largely from red sandstone
@PraxisSociety
Dream job outside tech is to run a show like
@Bourdain
where I travel & tell the stories of local cuisine by speaking to chefs directly
Tech version is a show where I travel to different cities to visually break down regional tech environments by speaking to founders directly
If you have an option to retire from tech and start a new career, what would that be?
For me it’s :
Running a cafe.
Going back to electronics and fixing hardwares.
Joshua Boger, founder of
@VertexPharma
quit his job at established Merck during an economic downturn to improve upon an ‘experimental’ drug, FK-506
When fundraising many asked “Don’t you think this is 5 years too early?”
“Yes. But, 5 years from now it’ll be 5 years too late”
If you want to get behind basically every news pay wall:
download the file from the GitHub link below and install as a chrome extension! Have been using this for a while and realised friends didn’t know about it
(👏🏾 to Nathan Ang for making this)
2014: Vimeo is earning $40M in revenue
2017:
@anjsud
becomes CEO & pushes Vimeo from being a YouTube competitor to a software company serving video creators
2021: expected to be valued at $10B after going public
Testament to the creator economy & transformative leadership
Favourite use case of tech/ AI is finding apps or solutions to random questions I have
Todays find: App that identifies the exact type of plant I took a photo of- have passed this tree for weeks on my runs🌿
Have you wondered what it takes to be a product manager in the life sciences? I am thrilled to be moderating the last
@bitsinbio
event this year. A panel of polymathic leaders who bridge the gap across biology, software and commercialization.
Panelists include:
Grace
NYC + NY state invested 20M total to make this deal happen. The “growth of nyc tech” has far more political will behind it than people realise.
Going through NY Venture’s portfolio makes my day. Current thesis focus on bio and climate tech co’s that are brought to the state.
We’re thrilled to share that we’re launching a new
@CZBiohub
in New York!
Bringing together engineers + scientists at
@Columbia
,
@RockefellerUniv
and
@Yale
,
#CZBiohubNY
will engineer immune cells for earlier detection & treatment of disease
Ever read a blog that you want to send to people right after, 5 years later but I think about this one a lot
“Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible.”
Incredible AI x bio event at the
@NYSE
yesterday!
Especially enjoyed the round table discussion on foundation models and panel takes after. Thanks to
@ameekapadia
@pablolubroth
@patricksmalone
and others for putting it together🧬
The 19 kids who died today were 2 days away from summer break.
I used to live 30 min from Sandy hook and on days like today I think about the teachers suddenly crying That Day, confused students unsure of what was going on. All for it to happen again repeatedly.
Closing out
#BIO2024
Kicked it off by moderating one of my favorite panels to date- AI Trial in Fire: Experimental Validation in Drug Discovery.
With a decade plus of experience at the forefront of AI in drug discovery across the panel (as founders, scientists & involvement
I’m for sure late to this but can we give nyc a round of applause for La Guardia airport bc what??
When I tell you this airport was barely functional last I was here and is now beautiful and efficient
RSVP below for the upcoming
@bitsinbio
panel with
@indbio
on ML across modalities!
Excited to hear from our panelists:
🧬
@katieelink
: Lead, ML for Healthcare and Biomedicine
@huggingface
🧬Dr. Mandana Manzari Honu: Head of BD
@kaleidoscopebio
🧬Michael Norsen: Principal,
Truth is I told everyone I knew I was doing the marathon before I even signed up or started training but having the race reinforced in every conversation I had pushed me to register and train for it
Already past capacity!
As I look through the signups, the event will bring together an impressive audience of founders, scientists, investors, engineers and builders across the space. Various co’s visiting from London. Come with questions🧬
Join us for the next
@bitsinbio
event on product across biotech and software.
Excited to hear from product leaders working at startups that are at the frontier of this intersection. Panelists include:
-Vinnay Subbiah, Director of product
@benevolent_ai
-Karl Leswing, ED of