E998: The Next Unicorns: Benchling CEO & Co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara is increasing efficiency for scientists with a cloud-based platform, gives insights on recent life-science innovations, ethics of gene therapy & defining the line between quackery & brilliance – E10 of 10-ep miniseries

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

0:53 Jason intros Sajith Wickramasekara
1:40 What does Benchling do?
2:24 How did Sajith get into life science?
6:55 Benchling's value proposition for scientists
9:04 How do they charge?
10:43 Is Chamath Palihapitiya the most famous Sri Lankan in the US?
13:25 Why immunotherapy is the most exciting development in life science
19:00 3D Printing & harvesting organs in other species
20:50 Ethics of editing a human embryo
28:19 How did the scientific community respond to the embryo controversy
29:52 Breakthroughs in gene therapy
34:09 Defining the line between quackery & brilliance
42:37 Upside & downside of genetically modified crops
47:54 What is the best approach for breakthroughs in life science?

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0:56.0	It's going to be a good show today.
0:57.0	We're going to talk about the massive change that's happening in life science
1:01.0	and I've got a really amazing founder on the
1:03.8	podcast his name is the Jeth and here we go I'm part of the hard last name
1:08.4	club too and you go by Saaji but yeah Saigeth is how you pronounce your first name.
1:13.6	Sajeth.
1:14.6	Saajeth.
1:15.6	Sajeth, got it.
1:17.4	Wickrama sekura.
1:19.3	Wickrama sekora.
1:20.4	Pretty close.
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