Ben Lamm

So my so the reason I started the company was, you know, I built a handful of software companies.

I love software.

And I met this guy, George Church, who's arguably the father of synthetic biology.

But George was like, you know, we could bring back mammoths.

We can rewild mammoths and help the ecosystem.

all these tools can help elephants today, and we can inspire the next generation.

And so given that I've got a little bit of ADD in me, and I've got that kind of entrepreneurial spirit, I felt like this was a project that could create a lot of value, create a lot of impact, and then also hopefully inspire that next generation, right?

And so I was kind of getting in the phase where I was going to start having kids.

And so I just kind of thought it was like the perfect project.

And then if we're successful, science and the world's never the same after that, right?

And so-

You know, I think it's one of those things that I think post-COVID, a lot of us, you know, was like, do we just want to sit around and watch Netflix or do we want to do something more awesome, right?

And so you see like SpaceX and you see all these awesome companies that are inspiring people to go be engineers.

What if we could do that for biology?

What if we get people really excited to say, I want to go be a genetic engineering major or I want to go and be a biologist or a conservation biologist?

So it kind of was like the perfect project for me, even though I have no background in biology whatsoever.

So that was the only gap.

They love animals.

Every week we get like pictures of like mammoths and dodos.

Now we're actually getting direwolves, which is pretty cool.