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DT Maxx

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
84 total appearances

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Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

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

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

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

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

All right, so they've now raised over $400 million, and their valuation, which is a kind of complicated metric involving what shares are worth, is over $10 billion, which puts it at the size level of Moderna. They've had an insane first few years.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

All right, so they've now raised over $400 million, and their valuation, which is a kind of complicated metric involving what shares are worth, is over $10 billion, which puts it at the size level of Moderna. They've had an insane first few years.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

All right, so they've now raised over $400 million, and their valuation, which is a kind of complicated metric involving what shares are worth, is over $10 billion, which puts it at the size level of Moderna. They've had an insane first few years.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

The dire wolf is not, let me just get this out there for everybody. The dire wolf is not, there's a difference between being extinct for 40 million years and being extinct for 14,000 years. They both sound like a long time to us, but it's just not comparable. So you can get, you can get, I can't get, you can't get, but Beth Shapiro could get viable ancient DNA.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

The dire wolf is not, let me just get this out there for everybody. The dire wolf is not, there's a difference between being extinct for 40 million years and being extinct for 14,000 years. They both sound like a long time to us, but it's just not comparable. So you can get, you can get, I can't get, you can't get, but Beth Shapiro could get viable ancient DNA.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

The dire wolf is not, let me just get this out there for everybody. The dire wolf is not, there's a difference between being extinct for 40 million years and being extinct for 14,000 years. They both sound like a long time to us, but it's just not comparable. So you can get, you can get, I can't get, you can't get, but Beth Shapiro could get viable ancient DNA.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Now, what you do with that DNA is you read the genetic sequences and then you recreate them, right? And you're going to put that DNA in the cells and the cells are going to replicate and you're going to have an animal, ultimately, once you put in an embryo and then implant it in a womb, you're going to have an animal that has those genes being acted on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Now, what you do with that DNA is you read the genetic sequences and then you recreate them, right? And you're going to put that DNA in the cells and the cells are going to replicate and you're going to have an animal, ultimately, once you put in an embryo and then implant it in a womb, you're going to have an animal that has those genes being acted on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Now, what you do with that DNA is you read the genetic sequences and then you recreate them, right? And you're going to put that DNA in the cells and the cells are going to replicate and you're going to have an animal, ultimately, once you put in an embryo and then implant it in a womb, you're going to have an animal that has those genes being acted on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

That makes it sound like you or I could probably do it with just a little bit of help. But it's not that easy because there are problems, you know, at every step of the way. And it's a little bit like if I described to you how to hit a home run, you'd be like, yeah, OK, there's the force and there's the counterforce and there's the angle of the swing. But most people don't hit home runs.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

That makes it sound like you or I could probably do it with just a little bit of help. But it's not that easy because there are problems, you know, at every step of the way. And it's a little bit like if I described to you how to hit a home run, you'd be like, yeah, OK, there's the force and there's the counterforce and there's the angle of the swing. But most people don't hit home runs.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

That makes it sound like you or I could probably do it with just a little bit of help. But it's not that easy because there are problems, you know, at every step of the way. And it's a little bit like if I described to you how to hit a home run, you'd be like, yeah, OK, there's the force and there's the counterforce and there's the angle of the swing. But most people don't hit home runs.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can get that much money going at a university lab without a fair amount of grant writing. I mean, grant writing is slow, and getting funded is slow. There's a guy named Lova Dahlin, who's a Swedish mathematician. Woolly Mammoth guy. And I think he made a really good point in my piece that nobody's really picked up on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can get that much money going at a university lab without a fair amount of grant writing. I mean, grant writing is slow, and getting funded is slow. There's a guy named Lova Dahlin, who's a Swedish mathematician. Woolly Mammoth guy. And I think he made a really good point in my piece that nobody's really picked up on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can get that much money going at a university lab without a fair amount of grant writing. I mean, grant writing is slow, and getting funded is slow. There's a guy named Lova Dahlin, who's a Swedish mathematician. Woolly Mammoth guy. And I think he made a really good point in my piece that nobody's really picked up on.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And I think it's about the money, which he said, like, the people who invested in this company weren't going to give, you know, I'm paraphrasing him, $100 million to the World Wildlife Fund. Like, you know, they're tech people. They probably would have bought Bitcoin with it otherwise. Like this, you know, Peter Jackson said that owning, being a part of Colossal was as much fun as movie making.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And I think it's about the money, which he said, like, the people who invested in this company weren't going to give, you know, I'm paraphrasing him, $100 million to the World Wildlife Fund. Like, you know, they're tech people. They probably would have bought Bitcoin with it otherwise. Like this, you know, Peter Jackson said that owning, being a part of Colossal was as much fun as movie making.

Today, Explained
The startup that cried dire wolf

And I think it's about the money, which he said, like, the people who invested in this company weren't going to give, you know, I'm paraphrasing him, $100 million to the World Wildlife Fund. Like, you know, they're tech people. They probably would have bought Bitcoin with it otherwise. Like this, you know, Peter Jackson said that owning, being a part of Colossal was as much fun as movie making.