Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On today's episode, we have Joshua Hoffman, CEO and co-founder of the biotech company, Zimergen.

Previously, Joshua was a partner at

Norcoft Capital and a managing director of Rothschild. He began his career at McKinsey,

where he focused on strategy and operations. Here's Joshua.

I'm going to talk about some of the lessons I've learned.

Some things I think that I got accidentally right, some things that I think I invested

in building capability that turned out to be useful.

Frankly, some stuff I got wrong.

And I'm hoping as I go through these, we'll be able to pause and have a conversation.

So at any point, if you have a question, throw our hand up, we can have this be more of a discussion

because, frankly, if I have to talk at the group for 45 minutes or so, it's going to be boring for me.

And since this is really all about me, no, just kidding.

So I'm guessing, just out of curiosity, had anybody here heard of Zimurgeon before anybody?

A few people, right?

Maybe because we hired a Mayfield fellow.

That may be part of it.

But we're pretty quiet in the press.

Partly that's by dint of personality.

Partly that's by dint of some of the work we do.

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