Fred Turner

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: $5BN in Revenue, 7 to 7,000 Employees in 9 Months, 206,000 Tests in a Single Day: The Craziest Story in Startups: Curative with Fred Turner · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

This was from San Francisco.

And to look at one other lab license that was, I think, affiliated with

with one of the universities.

They had a good space, they had this license, and they were doing pretty minimal testing.

So they just kind of like a blank slate.

And so it started off as a 50-50 JV between Curative and this company that had the lab license.

And we would bring the test, we would bring the expertise, they would bring the license.

And it became pretty clear quite quickly that they didn't have the expertise to scale it up.

They were actively getting in the way of scaling it up.

So we bought them out.

So we were getting paid.

We had our first testing contract.

We were doing police and the fire department.

How do you do that?

So this is mostly, yeah.

So actually our very first customer was the sheriff department in San Dimas.

Well, we did some like private testing for individuals that were paying for the tests.

But our first government customer was the sheriff's department in San Dimas.

And that came about because they got wind that we were setting up a COVID lab because people were freaking out about it in the town.

and so one of their sheriffs reached out to me on linkedin and was like hey what are you guys doing and so i connected with him and i explained what we're doing and how it was very safe and how we had this way of deactivating the covid as soon as it went into the sample and so there was no live virus on site and we were not presenting a risk to the community and actually this was going to be a good thing and we're going to be hiring a lot of people and kind of got him on board that you know we're doing we knew what we're doing and we're doing this in a safe way and then he was like well we really need testing

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