At Ginkgo, we focus on improving the process of designing biology to make it smarter and more efficient.

I started Ginkgo Bioworks to harness the power of biology for great things, as biology can self-replicate, self-repair, and self-assemble with precision that engineering disciplines can only dream of.

After much brainstorming, we decided that Ginkgo's mission would be to make biology easier to engineer, which defines us as a company beyond just our business model or products. The only reason to start a company is if there's a problem you're passionate about solving and you have a mission to accomplish.

At Ginkgo Bioworks, we design microbes and organisms to specifications, and we were founded in 2008 with around 75 employees.

Ginkgo Bioworks sold contracts to create genetically engineered organisms before they were built, using these contracts as proof of customer demand to raise millions from investors.

I believe biology is the most powerful manufacturing platform on the planet, and I want to use it to build innovative solutions.

I believe that creating a diverse workforce will strengthen our company, but we also need to focus on making Ginkgo a sustainable business.

We are exploring how to design all technological products as if they are part of the biosphere, envisioning a world where everything can be grown rather than built.

We're exploring directed evolution of bacteria to produce various products, including biomaterials and therapeutics, using computational methods in a lab setting.