George Church

And so you get a couple of wins in the literature, and people start coming that are a whole other level up on it.

And maybe they're already aiming for entrepreneurship well before they weren't.

Anyway, it evolves in a way that you can't just jumpstart from.

You couldn't just suddenly create Harvard and MIT in the middle of the desert and suddenly create a lab that is taking these kind of risks early in a career.

um with you know and then and then the also the timing is good because the exponential is starting to show up the exponential is is pretty much the same in in the beginning of the hockey stick and the end of the hockey stick um but you don't notice it until it gets and so what that's what's happening is both the the computing uh ai

biotech, they're all peaking at this point.

And so whichever lab happened to already have that positive feedback loop going with the academic to industry technology transfer would asymmetrically benefit from that exponential.

And to some extent exponential, you can really look like you're very productive when really you're just kind of sliding downhill.

It's like,

Yeah.

Look at how productive I am.

I just jumped out of a plane and I'm accelerating steadily.

Well, I'm glad you framed it as spotting talent.

I've heard at least one meme that all you have to do is show up and you'll get into my lab, which is definitely not true.

First of all, there's a lot of self-selection, frankly.

We're an acquired taste.

Technology development is not

at all the same skill set as regular biology, where you pick a gene, you pick a disease, you pick a phenomenon, and you hammer away at it for your whole life.

This is more you make a library where you have, you know,

A million members of the library are going to fail, and maybe one or two will succeed.