Victor Vescovo

The real value in a company like Colossal Biosciences are the tools that they're developing in order to manipulate things at the genetic level.

That company is developing tools that will allow us to do large edits on DNA of mammalian species, but also others.

And it's those tools that are extremely valuable.

It will allow us to conserve animals that are critically endangered.

It's a heck of a lot easier to preserve an existing species than to bring one back that's already extinct.

So animals where there are only a handful left, we can preserve their DNA and potentially in the future, synthetically create healthy populations.

which would make extinction hopefully a thing of the past when we fully develop the tools.

So Colossal really is a technology company.

It's just that all the attention is placed on the dire wolves or the dodo bird or the physical manifestations of these incredible tools they're developing.

But as a venture capitalist, I'm most interested in the tools.

Astroforge is the same way where they're trying to mine asteroids in space, but the real value of Astroforge, yes, they'll potentially get money back from bringing platinum group metals back to earth.

But if you can go to an asteroid, land on it, and scrape it for some metals, project that 20 or 30 or 40 years in the future.

The technology tools you're developing to do that have immense applications for space exploration, space colonization, any number of other things.

It's the tools that are valuable.

that comes back and i don't i have no idea how long 2028 i think is the current projected 2028 so is this a is this a legitimate woolly mammoth or is it edited that's a very good debate there are some in the scientific community that say no you're just making what's called a chimera you're taking an existing species and injecting some genetics that make it look like a woolly man but it's not a real woolly mammoth or a real dire wolf because it doesn't have the identical

or very close to identical DNA of the original.

And I think that one could argue that they have a point, but it goes back to the old saw, right?

If something looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, eats like a duck, I think it's a duck.

And what is important is that we are able to create species that can fill a niche

like the Tasmanian tiger that was eliminated by mankind.