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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

A lot of the most successful entrepreneurs are outliers. They think differently than the rest of us.

They look at some mainstream idea, one that everyone else accepts as fact, just differently.

Like Airbnb's founders who thought there might be a business in letting ordinary people

rent out their spare bedrooms. That seemed wild. Well, today we're talking to someone whose entire

career is driven by an outlandish idea. What if aging isn't something that has to happen?

What if it's a disease, one that you can even reverse?

James Pire is a scientist by training who went into business. He's the founder of Cambrian,

and I'm going to let him explain what that startup does, what I want you to focus on

for this conversation is how James thinks. Like all of us, he sees plenty of problems in the world

and he can identify the systems that lead to them. But James is driven by his radical idea

to look for new ways to address them. To start things off, we talk about how it is James

first began to see aging as a problem. Here's James. I started down this path when I was

right around 14 and so when I was an early teenager, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer

and it was pretty clear he didn't have long to live. Yeah. Were you close with him?

Very close. I looked up to him. I would even say that at that point, as I had kind of been

thinking about what a well-lived life meant, he was sort of the embodiment of that for me. He was

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