The Biotech Startups Podcast

🧬 The Dark Side of Postdoc Culture Nobody Talks About | Nicole Paulk (Part 2/4)

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we continue founder, CEO, and president of Siren Biotechnology, Nicole Paulk's journey from small-tow...

🧬 2 Identity Crises, 1 Mission: From Broken Shoulder to Biotech Career | Nicole Paulk (Part 1/4)

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we sit down with Nicole Paulk, founder, CEO, and president of SIREN Biotechnology, a company pioneeri...

🧬 The Competitive Threat Reshaping US Drug Discovery Strategy | Richard Yu (Part 4/4)

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, co-founder and CEO of Abalone Bio, Richard Yu reflects on how processing grief after losing his co-fo...

🧬 Resilience After Loss: Leadership Lessons for Biotech Founders | Richard Yu (Part 3/4)

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Richard Yu, co-founder and CEO of Abalone Bio, reflects on building a company around a bold scientifi...

🧬 Resilience After Loss: Leadership Lessons for Biotech Founders | Richard Yu (Part 3/4)

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Richard Yu, co-founder and CEO of Abalone Bio, reflects on building a company around a bold scientifi...

🧬 The Science of Persistence: Why Biotech Founders Can’t Quit | Richard Yu (Part 2/4)

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we continue our conversation with Richard Yu, CEO and co-founder of Abalone Bio, as he traces his pat...

🧬 Quitting Physics to Treat Biology Like an Engineering Problem | Richard Yu (Part 1/4)

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The magic is always at the intersections." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we explore CEO & co-founder of Abalone Bio, Richard Yu’...

🧬 You Don’t See the Path, You Take the Next Step | Sujal Patel (Part 4/4)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Sujal Patel recounts his transition from enterprise data storage to co-founding Nautilus Biotechnolog...

🧬 "Be On It”: High-Stakes Deals & Building World-Class Teams | Sujal Patel (Part 3/4)

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we dive into part three of Founder and CEO at Nautilus Biotechnology, Sujal Patel’s story—zooming...

🧬 If You Knew What Could Go Wrong, You’d Never Start - The Founder’s Leap | Sujal Patel (Part 2/4)

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we dive into Sujal Patel's bold decision to leave RealNetworks and co-found Isilon Systems, a distrib...

🧬 How Open-Source Programming Teaches Company Building Skills | Sujal Patel (Part 1/4)

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Sujal Patel — co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology and former founder and CEO of Isilon Sys...

🧬 Staying Lean When Funding Dries Up: Surviving Biotech Downturns | Roy Maute (Part 4/4)

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we follow Roy Maute’s journey from the Gilead acquisition of Forty Seven Inc. through COVID-era cor...

🧬 Trust Over Control: Building Teams Like the Best Scientists | Roy Maute (Part 3/4)

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we dive into Roy Maute's journey from academic scientist to biotech entrepreneur, exploring the found...

🧬 Why Comfort Is the Enemy of Scientific Growth | Roy Maute (Part 2/4)

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we follow CEO and co-founder of Pheast Therapeutics, Roy Maute’s graduate school journey in Riccard...

🧬 “Get the Info, Take the Shot”: The DIY Mindset Behind Success | Roy Maute (Part 1/4)

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we explore Roy Maute's foundational years—from a curious kid in Dallas, Texas, to an aspiring scien...

🧬 How Curiosity Creates Breakthroughs in AI, Data & Biotech | Caleb Appleton (Part 4/4)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Partner at Bison Ventures, Caleb Appleton shares how Bison Ventures is rethinking biotech investing t...

🧬 From VC to Operator: The Career Move Nobody Recommended | Caleb Appleton (Part 3/4)

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we explore Partner at Bison Ventures, Caleb Appleton's journey from venture capital to operations and...

🧬 People Over Place: A Lesson in Career Success | Caleb Appleton (Part 2/4)

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"People outweigh challenging environments. A great environment cannot outweigh challenging people." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, ...

🧬 The Serendipity Mindset: Unlocking Career Opportunities | Caleb Appleton (Part 1/4)

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"You have to learn to embrace serendipity. You can't plan everything out because it will never go to plan." ​In this episode of The Biotech Startup...

🧬 Big Pharma to Startup: Chasing a Patient‑Centric Future | Judy Chou (Part 4/4)

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Dr. Judy Chou shares how she walked away from leading global biotech operations at Bayer to take a ri...

🧬 Biosimilars, FDA Risk-Taking & Billion-Dollar Deals | Judy Chou (Part 3/4)

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“If you want to make money, really follow your passion rather than follow the money, because the money later on will come.” ​ In this episode of...

🧬 High-Throughput Innovation & Breaking Biotech Bottlenecks | Judy Chou (Part 2/4)

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, President & CEO of AltruBio, Judy Chou, shares her pivotal transition from academia to industry, reve...

🧬 Inner Rebel: Art, Physics & Purpose-Driven Leadership | Judy Chou (Part 1/4)

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast by Excedr, AltruBio President and CEO Judy Chou traces her journey from an arts-driven childhood in po...

🧬 Democratizing Cell Therapy Through Regional Manufacturing | Amy Hay (Part 4/4)

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Amy Hay, Chief Business Officer at CTMC, shares how CTMC bridges academia and industry to help lean c...

🧬Career Reinvention After Leadership Shakeups | Amy Hay (Part 3/4)

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we explore Amy Hay's remarkable evolution from a longtime leader at MD Anderson Cancer Center to an e...

🧬 The Hidden Cost of Big Wins in Healthcare | Amy Hay (Part 2/4)

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If you're persistent, you can get there. If I think it's gonna be meaningful, I'm willing to do whatever it takes." In this episode of The Biotech S...

🧬 No Margin, No Mission: The Business Truth Healthcare Leaders Must Accept | Amy Hay (Part 1/4)

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"If you work hard and you try hard, you'll get there. It might take a long time. It might be a little bit bloody, and you might be battered, but you'l...

🧬 From Vendor to Trusted Advisor: A New B2B Playbook in Biotech | Jason C. Foster Re-Release (2/2)

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"The best thing about starting your own business is you get to design the business that you always wanted to work for." We’re revisiting some of ou...

🧬 People Aren’t Rational: Why That’s an Advantage as a Leader | Jason C. Foster Re-Release (1/2)

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you think about what we do as human beings, the vast majority of the value we create is through communication." We’re revisiting some of our pr...

🧬 Choosing the Right VC: What Money Can’t Buy | Jacob Glanville Re-Release (Part 4/4)

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you can synthesize, then there's no such thing as too much expertise." We’re revisiting some of our previous episodes over the holidays this ye...

🧬 The "Respiration Model": Balancing Debate & Execution | Jacob Glanville Re-Release (Part 3/4)

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you are capable of acquiring knowledge, of applying the knowledge, and you like it, you can succeed. It doesn't matter what it is." We’re revisi...

🧬 From Raw Data to Better Drugs: Deep Sequencing Antibodies | Jake Glanville Re-Release (2/4)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Find the thing that gets you excited, that fascinates you, and then have the thing you love be something else." We’re revisiting some of our previ...

🧬 The Mayan Negotiation Secret That Built A Biotech Company | Jake Glanville Re-Release (1/4)

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You don't always know at the time how something will be useful in the future, but if you keep following what fascinates you, those threads can re-syn...

🧬 Seed Rounds Are the New Series A: How Funding Benchmarks Shifted | Krish Ramadurai (4/4)

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The biggest problem that we're seeing right now is that the efficiency gains have not translated to enterprise value. The customer is not seeing that...

🧬 Controlled Chaos: Why Success Isn't Planned (And Doesn't Need To Be) | Krish Ramadurai (3/4)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm only doing this because I'm already doing this or because I couldn't afford to hypothesis test." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast...

🧬 Why 40% of Venture Funds Failed Last Year (And How to Avoid It) | Krish Ramadurai (2/4)

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was not like, 'Well, this partner helped me on it, and then we shared the deal.' I was like, 'I think I'm good at this because I basically did the ...

🧬 Working 3 Jobs at Harvard: How Desperation Built Conviction | Krish Ramadurai (1/4)

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You’ve just got to embrace the suck. When everything sucks, you just execute against it. It's nice because then when that situation happens again, ...

🧬 Profit + Purpose: The New Model for Healthcare Investing | Parag Shah Re-Release (2/2)

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Entrepreneurship is great, but, for me, family always came first. [My] wife and kids always came first. I didn't miss a single game or show or anythi...

🧬 How Biotech Companies Get Debt Funding (Without Revenue) | Parag Shah Re-Release (1/2)

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was fortunate that my parents pretty much allowed for a more experimental, open approach to education being important, but do what you want to do, ...

🧬 Big Pharma's $180B Patent Cliff: Why VCs Are Betting on Biotech | Sergey Jakimov (4/4)

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The only advice I can give to my 21-year-old self is that advice doesn't work... But whenever you actually need advice on something that you do not k...

🧬 $25M Fund, 20 Companies, Zero Failures: A Biotech Investing Secret | Sergey Jakimov (3/4)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you die, all your crypto doesn't make sense. All your sustainability doesn't make sense. You have not solved the major existential issue or the ma...

🧬 The Bank Heist Model: How to Build Your Startup Team | Sergey Jakimov (2/4)

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Building a deep tech company or building anything, pretty much, like being a founder in anything, it's like planning a bank robbery. It's like puttin...

🧬 Childhood Without Tech: Building a Foundation for VC Success | Sergey Jakimov (1/4)

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Retrospectively, this was honestly the best childhood one can get, and it was absolutely without gadgets." In this episode of The Biotech Startups P...

🧬 How Autonomous Science Will Change Drug Discovery Forever | Jimmy Sastra (Part 4/4)

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Risk management is really just planning for when things go wrong." In this final episode with Jimmy Sastra, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Monomer Bio, ...

🧬 Autonomous Labs: The Future of Cell Culture | Jimmy Sastra (Part 3/4)

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"People are looking at cells, making decisions, and then acting on them—that’s a robotics loop. I felt it could be done autonomously." In this ep...

🧬 Lessons From Building the World's First Robotic Cloud Lab | Jimmy Sastra (Part 2/4)

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Life is amazing, but it’s also very fragile. I could not think of a more important mission than trying to understand how life works." In this epis...

🧬 The Rebellious Mindset That Builds Successful Startups | Jimmy Sastra (Part 1/4)

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Maybe because of that experience, we still keep in touch. I feel fortunate that my friends and I built something together back then—even if it star...

🧬 100 Discovery Interviews Built a $3M Biotech Launchpad at Berkeley | Darren Cooke (Part 4/4)

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If anyone comes to me and says, 'Hey, I’ve got this idea. I think we could do something with it,' I’m like, 'You gotta take the I-Corps class fir...

🧬 How to Turn Regulatory Chaos Into Competitive Advantage | Darren Cooke (Part 3/4)

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you’re not challenging what you’ve always done, you’re not going to move forward or innovate." In this episode, Darren Cooke, Interim Chief...

🧬 Mentors, Networks & IP: Power Moves for Biotech Startup Success | Darren Cooke (Part 2/4)

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re busy and bored, you really should be doing something else." In this episode, Darren Cooke, I...

🧬 Building Berkeley's $1B Innovation Ecosystem | Darren Cooke (Part 1/4)

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you go down a road and then you realize, Ah, shoot. This was not what I expected, or Why am I doing this? you can do something else. Right? Yeah. ...

🧬 How to Build Your Circle When You're Starting From Zero | Sandra Shpilberg (Part 4/4)

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If the door's not open, it's not open. I should only be walking through doors that are open. Why am I going to knock on doors that are closed?" Sand...

🧬 No VC, No Problem: Building a Profitable Exit | Sandra Shpilberg (Part 3/4)

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“There is something that happens when we create expectations that are actually realistic, that we have a chance to delight ourselves. And then that ...

🧬 The $3B Patient Recruitment Crisis: Digital Solutions | Sandra Shpilberg (Part 2/4)

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, what was exciting at BioMarin was that we were doing new things, innovating and creating from scratch.” I...

🧬 How Trauma Informs Purpose: Building Biotech Success | Sandra Shpilberg (Part 1/4)

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I walk around the world wanting to tell everyone that healing is possible. All types of healing are possible: physical healing, mental healing, spiri...

🧬 Why Drug Discovery Takes 15 Years (And How AI Cuts It to 3) | Andrey Doronichev (Part 4/4)

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“If our real mission is to truly help companies get drugs to patients faster and cheaper, the amount of complexity we have to solve goes way beyond ...

🧬 Inside the Google vs. Apple War: Launching YouTube iOS | Andrey Doronichev (Part 3/4)

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you as a leader of a startup—no matter how small—or you as an employee of a big organization, you could be the agent of change." In this epis...

🧬 How I Turned Economic Chaos Into My Biggest Advantage | Andrey Doronichev (Part 2/4)

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you're genuinely passionate and curious about things, people will feed that curiosity. Do not underestimate that." In this episode of The Biotech...

🧬 How to Build a Startup When Everything is Against You | Andrey Doronichev (Part 1/4)

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you leave the queue, you lose your place, and you wait for, like, four hours outside in winter in Moscow to buy some butter, literally. So those k...

🧬 The Hidden Advantages of Starting Up in a Downturn | Eswar Iyer (Part 4/4)

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you lose that passion, why would somebody else do this? And it comes down to how hungry you are. How bad do you want it?" In this episode of The ...

🧬 Innovation & IP Strategy: The Blueprint for Success in Biotech | Eswar Iyer (Part 3/4)

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you gain so much knowledge in each of your respective fields, you should be pushing something deeper. Yes, it's harder, but isn't that what you re...

🧬 Breaking Moore's Law: The Multiplexing Revolution | Eswar Iyer (Part 2/4)

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you're not fearful, what is something that you could do? If you're not worried about just publications or things, you could really spend a few yea...

Cultural Adaptation: A Secret Weapon for Biotech Success | Eswar Iyer (Part 1/4)

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was just very naive, and I just wanted to get down and do things. I was not thinking of how to finish my PhD fast; I just wanted to do something th...

🧬Reinventing Leather: How SynBio Is Transforming a $100B Industry | Michael Newton (Part 4/4)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We're not making a more sustainable leather. Yes, we do that. What we're making is a better leather. It's real leather, but it comes completely unifo...

🧬 How We Scaled Nike Innovation from the Shoelace Room | Michael Newton (Part 3/4)

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Hard things are hard. But we gotta go do them, or we gotta go try." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Michael Newton shares his journ...

🧬Why One-Size-Fits-All Leadership Fails - How Context Creates Success | Michael Newton (Part 2/4)

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A true superpower is being able to ask for help. Always... It amazes me how responsive people will be to that." In this episode of The Biotech Start...

🧬The Diamond of Success: 4 Traits Every Leader Needs | Michael Newton (Part 1/4)

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Attitude is by far number one… because you just aren’t gonna achieve anything in life if you don’t bring the right energy." In this episode o...

🧬Surviving the Biotech Funding Crunch: Insider Strategies | Samir Khleif (Part 4/4)

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The whole environment of the company is about discovery and innovation, so it's really buzzing with energy." In this episode of The Biotech Startups...

🧬How One Leader United 120 Experts to Transform Cancer Care | Samir Khleif (Part 3/4)

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I always kept my lab at NCI, so I was always doing my research. But I was asked by him to lead the oncology critical path at the FDA, and I did that....

🧬 Breaking the Wall Between Science & Patient Care: Translational Medicine | Samir Khleif (Part 2/4)

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The way I have grown up in the field is not only to discover basic science findings, but also to have in mind always… how can we translate this d...

🧬 Boy Scout Values & Refugee Resilience: Building Biotech Leadership | Samir Khleif (Part 1/4)

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Education was the highest value in our family. It was not even a question—it was the core." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Samir...

🧬 Multi-Edit CAR T-Cells: The Crazy Science That Might Cure Brain Cancer | Aaron Edwards (Part 4/4)

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“This isn't just one gene edit—this is multiple edits, working in concert. It’s a fundamentally different chassis.” In this episode of The Bi...

🧬 Non-Traditional Leadership & Knowledge Sharing: The New Edge in Biotech | Aaron Edwards (Part 3/4)

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“This isn't just one gene edit—this is multiple edits, working in concert. It’s a fundamentally different chassis.” In part three of The Biot...

🧬 Why Most Biotech Startups Fail (And How to Survive Market Crashes) | Aaron Edwards (Part 2/4)

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You might not have developed it. You might not know where that is. But you're finding what that North Star is." In this episode of The Biotech Start...

🧬 Embracing Identity & Curiosity: Being Different Fuels Innovation | Aaron Edwards (Part 1/4)

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"There was something else there that I needed to keep searching for... and that's a theme in my life." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcas...

🧬 Growth Without Venture Capital: The Bootstrapped Bioscience Playbook | Ivan Liachko (Part 4/4)

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It's not a brute force approach. It's a cleverness-based approach. It's a new kind of information that lets us do new things." Host Jon Chee sits do...

🧬 How 3D Genome Mapping is Changing Everything We Know About DNA | Ivan Liachko (Part 3/4)

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you get a new kind of information, suddenly you can do something with it that you couldn't do before at all." In this episode of The Biotech Star...

🧬 Startup Survival Skills: Resilience, Frugality & Real Talk in Biotech | Ivan Liachko (Part 2/4)

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Every time you think you’re right and somebody puts you in your place and you learn from it, eventually you’re like, that guy gave me the great...

🧬 Passion Is Chaos: Grit, Curiosity, & the Biotech Breakthrough Mindset | Ivan Liachko (Part 1/4)

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Passion is chaos. You're doing unreasonable things sometimes for reasons you can't explain to anyone why. That's just what I want.” In this episod...

🧬 AI, Mentors & the Future of Biotech: Teambuilding, Investing, & Innovation | Johnny Hu (Part 4/4)

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“It's the partnership all the way down, and everyone needs to be around the table to enable the ecosystem.” In this episode of The Biotech Startu...

🧬 Biotech Investing Unlocked: Mindset Shift, Risk, and Founder-First Lessons | Johnny Hu (Part 3/4)

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Sometimes you don't know what you don't know. And frankly, this is a journey that's long, and you'll learn a lot of things along the way. A lot of th...

🧬 The Shelf Life of Innovation: CRISPR, Biotech Culture & Winning Teams | Johnny Hu (Part 2/4)

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Every technology has a shelf life. It’s just true, right? And, so, is that shelf life years? Is it months? Is it weeks? Is it days? You know, has i...

🧬 NASA, Harvard & Biotech: A Journey to Investing at Menlo Ventures | Johnny Hu (Part 1/4)

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Every startup starts the journey at zero, and you’re just building from scratch. Day by day, you do a little bit better, and eventually, you look...

🧬 Simulating Life & Accelerating Discovery: Deep Origin’s Biotech Vision | Michael Antonov (Part 4/4)

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you really want to understand biology, you need to be able to represent it in the computer. If you can’t model it, you can’t really predict it...

🧬 Debugging Aging: How a VR Pioneer is Revolutionizing Longevity | Michael Antonov (Part 3/4)

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"My mind is analytical – so I wondered ‘what is the most exciting, impactful thing I could do?’ I felt we’re all growing older, so where is th...

🧬 Building Oculus: Innovation, Grit & the $2 Billion VR Revolution | Michael Antonov (Part 2/4)

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We were a small team, just a handful of people, trying to solve problems that had stumped the industry for decades. Every day felt like we were build...

🧬 The Borrowed Computer That Built Oculus - An Unlikely Biotech Journey | Michael Antonov (Part 1/4)

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🧬 The Biotech Startups Podcast is powered by Excedr—helping life science startups accelerate R&D and commercialization with founder-friendly equi...

🧬 The Secret to Biotech Success: Time, Tools & Teamwork | Bogdan Knezevic (Part 4/4)

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"It's not about avoiding failure. It's about avoiding every scenario where you look back and say, ‘I could have done this differently and we wouldn'...

🧬 Purpose-Driven Innovation: Building Teams to Solve Biotech Problems | Bogdan Knezevic (Part 3/4)

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Until you experience a thing, you don’t know a thing. That’s something that bothers me a lot with the investor world-unless you’ve done it, you...

🧬 Letting Go to Level Up: Oxford, Identity, & Tenacity in Biotech | Bogdan Knezevic (Part 2/4)

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you think you're above whatever-taking out the proverbial trash or doing the proverbial dishes or the laundry, whatever-that's when a company is c...

🧬Immigrant Grit & Athletic Discipline: Building a Biotech Legacy | Bogdan Knezevic (Part 1/4)

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You have to do what you have to do to get to where you want to be, and work under the constraints you have. That means swallowing your ego and just r...

🧬 Redefining Biotech: Building Enduring Value Beyond Acquisition | Rabia Khan (Part 4/4)

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If you are that person, if you feel like you can't find your box and you're off doing these random things that no one else seems to find interesting,...

🧬 Sales Skills & Resilience: Hidden Drivers of Biotech Success | Rabia Khan (Part 3/4)

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"You have to be curious. You have to enjoy the problems as opposed to view them as problems. You can view them as puzzle pieces that you get to put to...

🧬 Rabia Khan - Serna Bio: Bridging Science & Tech—PhDs, MBAs, & Biotech Innovation (Part 2/4)

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“I wish someone had told me when I was starting my PhD to sit down and say, ‘what do I want out of this?’ and [then] write it down. Because, unl...

🧬 Rabia Khan - Serna Bio: Unraveling the Genetics of AI-Driven Drug Discovery (Part 1/4)

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was born and raised in a developing country. I was born and raised in Pakistan. And it's very interesting when you're born in a developing country....

🧬Alfredo Andere - LatchBio: Revolutionizing Biopharma Data & Mastering Enterprise Sales (Part 4/4)

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Focus and commitment to niche ideas have huge payoffs." In part four of our conversation with Alfredo Andere, co-founder of LatchBio, we explore how...

🧬Alfredo Andere - LatchBio: Building Biotech Data Tools to Revolutionize Life Sciences (Part 3/4)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"A lot of decisions when you're doing a startup come down to being naive enough to not know how hard it's going to be—and taking that leap of faith....

🧬Alfredo Andere - LatchBio: College Friends, Biotech Beginnings & Thoughtful Persistence (Part 2/4)

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🧬 The Biotech Startups Podcast is powered by Excedr—helping life science startups accelerate R&D and commercialization with founder-friendly equi...

🧬 Alfredo Andere - LatchBio: Conquering Berkeley's EECS & Building a Global Vision (Part 1)

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I had to make a decision because I knew that if nothing changed, I was just gonna fail out of EECS. I remember EECS actually sent me a letter where t...

🧬 Michael Paliotti - MilliporeSigma: Master Biotech Sales & Build High-Performance Teams (Part 4/4)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I see myself as a player coach. I really try to do what I can to be in the trenches as much as I can. I'm out on the field." In the final part of ou...