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

@ Y Combinator

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 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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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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Y Combinator Cast

07/01/17

@ Y Combinator

Bell Labs had a budget of $500 million in 1974, which would be equivalent to $1.5 billion today, highlighting the scale of investment needed for foundational research.

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Reshma Shetty

06/01/16

@ Y Combinator

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

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Neri Oxman

09/02/23

@ Lex Fridman

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

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Demis Hassabis

05/22/25

@ The Thinking Game Film

We couldn't have achieved this without the foundational work of the structural biology community, which provided the initial 150,000 protein structures that our system learned from.

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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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Peter H. Diamandis Cast

06/04/25

@ Peter H. Diamandis

The cost of sequencing a genome has drastically decreased, allowing for the creation of virtual models of individuals to better understand their biology and health.

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Demis Hassabis

05/22/25

@ The Thinking Game Film

In just a few years, our small team was able to determine the structures of 200 million proteins, compared to the 150,000 structures revealed by tens of thousands of scientists over 50 years.