He discusses learnings from his decades in venture at Sofinnova Investments including 'products vs platform', therapeutics areas of interest, modalities, and how he utilizes board seats and thinks about management teams. Chapters Intro and early life – 0:39 MD / PhD at Stanford – 5:10 Intro to venture – 9:39 Joining Sofinnova – 13:32 Product vs platform – 20:55 Board seats – 26:00 Investment strategy – 30:08 Therapeutic areas – 39:42 Regulatory predictability – 43:03 Manageme

Jessica Owens discusses the many experiences she has had in her career, including working on the venture side at Kleiner Perkins and Versant Ventures and on the operating side at Genomic Health and Grail. She highlights the value of VCs being able to understand how operators like CEOs think, and describes the type of investing INITIATE focuses on. Chapters Intro and early life - 0:49 First jobs / Wall Street - 13:25 Kleiner Perkins - 17:04 Kauffman Fellow - 24:14 Versant Vent

Art Pappas describes his early career, which involved numerous overseas posts for large companies, and how it let him to eventually found Pappas Capital. He discusses the various ways the firm invests, and how having corporates partners as LPs and co-investors has been a recipe for success. Chapters Intro and early life - 0:54 International work – 7:12 Takeaways from working for companies – 10:44 Understanding drug development – 16:22 Pappas Capital – 18:47 Helping universiti

While describing his early life in Washington and formative years at the University of Chicago that led to the founding of ARCH, he shares his thoughts on leadership, risk taking, changes he thinks are need to keep the United States competitive in life sciences, and his belief in AI's promise to transform our industry. Chapters Intro and early life – 0:44 Risk taking and leaders – 7:54 University of Chicago – 26:12 ARCH – 36:25 China – 48:07 Brain Health – 58:16 Project Prom

She describes her career beginnings as a lawyer, which led to general counsel and business unit head roles at Pfizer, and then joining the VC world at Polaris Partners (at Bob Langer's urging). She discusses the firm's investment philosophy, the nuances behind how companies choose lead assets, and the cycles biotech has been through over the last ten years. Plus, other roles she currently serves, including being the chair of Alnylam. Chapters Intro and early life – 0:43 Law f

He describes his early life and career experiences at Bell Labs, consulting work, and EPIX Pharmaceuticals before landing in his true interest, venture capital. Dr. Knight describes the foresight of Fidelity to focus on life sciences in its early days, and F-Prime's investing philosophy today. Chapters Early life & education - 1:13 Bell Labs -14:15 Consulting - 16:44 EPIX - 24:37 Venture Capital - 31:41 Investing Early - 41:49 F-Prime Today - 49:41

He describes his early life and education, 18 years of company building at Flagship Pioneering, founding Averin (previously called Bedford Bridge) with his brother, and investing at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Chapters Background & Early Life - 0:23 Education & MD PhD - 5:49 Bob Langer - 11:48 Flagship - 14:18 Microbiome - 25:01 The institutionalization of company creation - 34:41 Deploying Capital - 42:22 Averin - 50:39 Biosensor Company - 59:01 Consumeriz

Clay Thorp describes his early education and becoming a business partner to his brother on a genomics startup. He describes the genesis of Hatteras, the history and strengths of the life sciences ecosystem in the North Carolina area, and his philosophy of backing founders. Chapters Early life end education – 3:31 Helping his brother run a genomics company - 10:28 Creating a seed fund – 16:50 North Carolina's strengths – 25:51 Bob Ingram – 29:56 Investing local and beyond – 4

Jay Lichter describes his roots growing up in Chicago, Yale, and an early career role at DuPont Merck before getting a call from Kevin Kinsella to try the world of venture at Avalon. Since that pivotal move, he describes numerous companies he either operated or funded, leading to his work today at Avalon Bioventures. Chapters Early life – Chicago, Yale, DuPont Merck – 1:40 Joining Kevin Kinsella and moving to the west coast - 7:16 Sequana – 10:46 French company and Pfizer – 1

Corey Goodman shares learnings from his career in biotech, including working in academia, biotech, pharma, and as a venture capital...

Bruce Booth discusses his education and early career, the structure of Atlas and the types of investments it makes, investing in assets...

The Founder & Managing Partner of Samsara Biocapital, Dr. Akkaraju describes his early move from Standford to industry and various...

Still a practicing physician today, Vineeta Agarwala describes her educational background and early career, including experiences at the...

Glenn Rockman describes the introduction to impact investing he gained from working for J.P. Morgan and along with the Gates Foundation...

Aaron Kantoff describes the road on the public markets side that eventually led him to venture, and recalls successful investments he...

Lindy Fishburne describes her educational background and career, and transitioning from the philanthropic Breakout Labs within the Thiel...

Dr. Westphal describes his upbringing and early career at McKinsey and Polaris, founding or co-founding companies like Momenta, Alnylam,...

Tiba Aynechi describes her career path, which has been spent entirely in the Bay Area since she earned her PhD from UCSF in the early...

Josh Resnick describes his career path, which includes working on the venture side of both private funds and pharma (Merck). He explains...

Steve Tregay describes his career path, including how early roles at Array BioPharma and Novartis led him to found Forma Therapeutics. He...