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Reshma Shetty

06/01/16

@ Y Combinator

We dumpster dove for equipment from defunct biotech companies, acquiring everything we needed for our lab at a fraction of the cost.

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Reshma Shetty Speaks at Y Combinator's Female Founders Conference 2016

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Reshma Shetty Speaks at Y Combinator's Female Founders Conference 2016

06/01/16

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Reshma Shetty

06/01/16

@ Y Combinator

We built our first biology lab for about $150,000 using secondhand equipment, which was significantly less than the conventional estimate of a few million dollars.

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Y Combinator Cast

07/30/18

@ Y Combinator

We're building the operating system for scientific labs, providing free software to improve productivity and making money through lab supplies.

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Jonathan Lim

04/30/25

@ a16z

When we went public in 2021, we decided to save our funds instead of spending them immediately, anticipating tougher days ahead in the biotech landscape.

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Y Combinator Cast

02/24/15

@ Y Combinator

We have received many applications from hardware and biotech companies, and we are adapting our approach to support their longer growth timelines.

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Chip Wilson

06/10/23

@ Tony Robbins

When we were low on funds, I wholesaled to a key account to generate cash flow, which ultimately saved the company from going under.

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Eric Chen

04/08/25

@ EO

I had to earn every single user and every single dollar that came in, which taught us to be extremely efficient and scrappy with our incubation capital.

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Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

I started Science Exchange to solve my own problem as a breast cancer researcher who was frustrated with the process of farming out experiments.

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Marc Andreessen

12/15/24

@ Chris Williamson

In our work in tech and biotech, we aim to find solutions to the healthcare crisis through new technologies that can reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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Mark Cuban

03/30/24

@ Lex Fridman

I started Cost Plus Drugs after realizing the inefficiencies in the pharmaceutical market, especially after the price hike of a drug by Martin Shkreli.