Arvind Gupta - IndieBio - Helping Scientists Use Biology and Technology to Solve Global Problems

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Arvind Gupta began his career as a genetic engineer before entering industrial design, where he learned the process of productizing technology. Gupta has implemented what he's learned in his current role as the founder of IndieBio, a venture capital firm that funds scientists to become entrepreneurs and solve the world's most pressing problems using biology and technology.

As an example, Gupta discusses cellular agriculture, which is the process of producing food in cellular factories and a concept that Gupta says was foreign until IndieBio invested in it about three years ago. Since then, "It's changed the conversation about how we produce our food," says Gupta. Indiebio has also invested in a company that's matching cancer patients to clinical trials using AI, natural language processing, and a process referred to as "stratifying" patients, which allows for a greater understanding of exactly who they are and why they may or may not be responding to a particular drug.

Gupta discusses a variety of other topics, including the ways in which companies go wrong, the ways of thinking that create barriers to certain solutions, and what the team at IndieBio looks for in potential investment opportunities.

To learn more, visit indiebio.co.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies
0:08.0	Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these
0:14.8	technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner for
0:19.6	Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.0	My guest today is Arvin Gupta, managing director and founder of Indie Bio. So Arvin, how you doing today?
0:35.4	I'm doing really well. Thanks, yourself? Yeah, I'm really glad to talk to you. I know
0:39.2	Indie Bio is a preaminate company. So if you wouldn't mind telling listeners, tell me about Indy Bio, what's the premise? How long have you guys been in operation?
0:48.4	Yeah, absolutely. So Indy Bio is a venture capital fund that is funded by SOSV, which I'm a general partner.
0:58.6	And so what we do is we fund scientists to become entrepreneurs and solve the world's most pressing problems
1:07.0	using biology as technology.
1:10.0	I came to this premise, really over the last 20 years. I started my life as a
1:18.1	professional life as a genetic engineer, studied genetic engineering in college and then just realize that the speed of biology
1:27.0	did not match the speed of my attention span or the shortness of my attention
1:30.0	then, especially back then it was just very very slow and so I went on to do
1:36.6	design industrial design and work to the coming called IDO where I really learned the tools of using a process to
1:47.2	to product-wise technology and to create product market fit and really bring something that is a possibility into a reality.
1:57.0	And then took the next step of doing a startup myself. What's that?
2:02.0	So just saying, hmm, okay, I like the fact that he said there's a process to productize things instead of just, you know, invent something and then hope that people will love it.
2:11.0	Yeah, I mean, I think that's great for one-off inventors, but I think if you can create
2:16.3	something repeatable and really understand the major points at which things fail and you know understand the major points
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