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

Yes.

So I went from initially cattle testing through sepsis to COVID.

So it started off

my first company in the UK, which was called TL Biolabs at the time, basically sequencing dairy and beef cows to predict various traits about the animal from an early age.

So it started off with beef.

You can predict that certain cows are going to have more musculature from an early age, and some cows can have too much musculature, and then they have trouble giving birth.

And so there's an optimum that you're shooting for.

And I found this completely by chance.

I won the UK National Science Engineering Competition

was on TV a little bit.

And this farmer reached out to me because he wanted help testing his cows.

And he was sending his samples to the Netherlands and it was taking weeks and it was terrible.

And I initially told him like, I'm not interested in cows.

I was interested in human genetics at the time.

No, thank you.

And then he kind of kept pressing and he like sent me samples with a check attached to the front.

And I was like, oh,

okay, this is interesting.

And so I did the first batch of samples for him.

And then all of his friends started sending me samples.

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