Babson’s David Stein: “Succeeding where Theranos failed”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on David Stein, chief executive of Babson Diagnostics, to talk about the importance of blood testing (4:49), why Babson is not Theranos (6:47), trying to compete with that idea (9:26), why they succeeded where Theranos failed (14:34), using a tiny amount of blood (18:23), fighting against the Theranos effect (24:37), being owned by a company they aim to disrupt (26:28), liquid biopsies (28:02), the new age of biological data (32:23), regulatory approval (37:09), and avoiding the spotlight (39:03).

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0:32.4	Yo! Technology. What is it all about?
0:36.9	Well, it's so funny, there is so much heat and light around Theranos.
0:41.4	And obviously, it fizzled.
0:43.2	And it feels like you guys are on the cusp of actually doing the thing.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:48.1	But nobody knows about you.
0:50.2	Isn't that kind of weird?
0:51.8	Yeah, well, this is part of us knowing about us.
0:54.3	So I think this is part of us ramping up now and not getting ahead of our skis,
1:00.2	which is making a whole bunch of claims that we can't back up using our signs first.
1:05.4	But... Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
1:20.1	How is everybody doing?
1:22.0	We're almost there.
1:23.6	Almost to Christmas.
1:24.9	Just a note on that point.
1:27.4	Before you get started today, I had said that
1:28.8	this would be the last episode of 2023. I was not telling the truth. It's not. I kind of messed
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