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DT Maxx

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

They are going about their quasi-meta-direwolf existence. Blissful disregard for any controversy about what you want to call them. Or blissful disregard of whether they should have been brought back in the first place.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

So, I mean, Ben Lamb is kind of amazing. I am pretty much in awe of Ben Lamb. Here's a guy who's maybe 40-something. He's already had like four or five successes by which he started up four or five companies and they were bought out by larger companies, which is kind of what you want to do when you're a startup guy.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

So, I mean, Ben Lamb is kind of amazing. I am pretty much in awe of Ben Lamb. Here's a guy who's maybe 40-something. He's already had like four or five successes by which he started up four or five companies and they were bought out by larger companies, which is kind of what you want to do when you're a startup guy.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

So, I mean, Ben Lamb is kind of amazing. I am pretty much in awe of Ben Lamb. Here's a guy who's maybe 40-something. He's already had like four or five successes by which he started up four or five companies and they were bought out by larger companies, which is kind of what you want to do when you're a startup guy.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then, you know, one day he meets a guy named George Church, Church being the Gandalf of our earlier narrative, if that survives. And Church is a Harvard professor, a guy who's gotten a million patents and loves to do deep thinking. He's a big kind of what-if guy, like, what if we were to bring back the Neanderthals? Yeah. And then the press goes, ah!

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then, you know, one day he meets a guy named George Church, Church being the Gandalf of our earlier narrative, if that survives. And Church is a Harvard professor, a guy who's gotten a million patents and loves to do deep thinking. He's a big kind of what-if guy, like, what if we were to bring back the Neanderthals? Yeah. And then the press goes, ah!

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then, you know, one day he meets a guy named George Church, Church being the Gandalf of our earlier narrative, if that survives. And Church is a Harvard professor, a guy who's gotten a million patents and loves to do deep thinking. He's a big kind of what-if guy, like, what if we were to bring back the Neanderthals? Yeah. And then the press goes, ah!

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then George Church goes, I was just considering it. I was just thinking about it. You guys calm down. So George Church and Ben get together, and basically what Ben says is, if you had all the money in the world, George, what would you bring back? What would you want to do with your time? And George says, I'd bring back the woolly mammoth. Sick.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then George Church goes, I was just considering it. I was just thinking about it. You guys calm down. So George Church and Ben get together, and basically what Ben says is, if you had all the money in the world, George, what would you bring back? What would you want to do with your time? And George says, I'd bring back the woolly mammoth. Sick.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And then George Church goes, I was just considering it. I was just thinking about it. You guys calm down. So George Church and Ben get together, and basically what Ben says is, if you had all the money in the world, George, what would you bring back? What would you want to do with your time? And George says, I'd bring back the woolly mammoth. Sick.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

I mean, I don't know if it's responsible, but it sounds cool. Right, right, exactly. And, you know, they get together. It's like, let's put on a show, right? And, you know, this being Ben Lamb, super talented, perfectly adapted modern entrepreneur, and he raises money. Basically, I don't know the details. I think he raises money with a phone call because he's got a great second idea.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

I mean, I don't know if it's responsible, but it sounds cool. Right, right, exactly. And, you know, they get together. It's like, let's put on a show, right? And, you know, this being Ben Lamb, super talented, perfectly adapted modern entrepreneur, and he raises money. Basically, I don't know the details. I think he raises money with a phone call because he's got a great second idea.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

I mean, I don't know if it's responsible, but it sounds cool. Right, right, exactly. And, you know, they get together. It's like, let's put on a show, right? And, you know, this being Ben Lamb, super talented, perfectly adapted modern entrepreneur, and he raises money. Basically, I don't know the details. I think he raises money with a phone call because he's got a great second idea.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And his second idea is while we learn how to de-extinct these animals, we're going to learn an awful lot of interesting biomedical tech and that we could sell. That's where we make our money. We're not going to make our money. He's very, very firm on this. There will be no Jurassic Park. We will not display these animals. Let's check back in in five years, but we will spin off the biotech.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And his second idea is while we learn how to de-extinct these animals, we're going to learn an awful lot of interesting biomedical tech and that we could sell. That's where we make our money. We're not going to make our money. He's very, very firm on this. There will be no Jurassic Park. We will not display these animals. Let's check back in in five years, but we will spin off the biotech.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And his second idea is while we learn how to de-extinct these animals, we're going to learn an awful lot of interesting biomedical tech and that we could sell. That's where we make our money. We're not going to make our money. He's very, very firm on this. There will be no Jurassic Park. We will not display these animals. Let's check back in in five years, but we will spin off the biotech.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And the biotech is honestly probably worth even more than, what is Disney World charged now or Disneyland?

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And the biotech is honestly probably worth even more than, what is Disney World charged now or Disneyland?

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And the biotech is honestly probably worth even more than, what is Disney World charged now or Disneyland?

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

All right, so maybe I take that back. Maybe the better business is displaying them.