Margo Georgiadis (Flagship Pioneering and Montai Health) - Deep Tech Innovation
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
Stanford eCorner
4.4 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Margo Georgiadis is a CEO-partner at Flagship Pioneering and co-founder and CEO of Montai Health, an AI platform company enabling the predictable discovery of breakthrough small molecule medicines to treat and preempt chronic disease. In these roles, Georgiadis brings extensive expertise in technological innovation and high-performance business transformation and leverages her artificial intelligence and machine learning experience to advance biotech innovation. In this presentation and conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Georgiadis shares frameworks that Flagship uses to develop deep tech companies and her approach to addressing the challenges of drug discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. |
| 0:04.0 | Brought to you by Stanford Ecor. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome everybody to this week's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar, |
| 0:11.0 | the Stanford Seminar for Aspiring Founders. |
| 0:14.0 | ETL is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, |
| 0:19.0 | and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford |
| 0:22.3 | Entrepreneurial Students. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford |
| 0:27.8 | and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups. |
| 0:32.3 | And today I have the pleasure of welcoming Margot Georgiatis to ETL. Margo is a CEO partner at Flagship Pioneering. |
| 0:43.3 | How many people know about Flagship Pioneering? |
| 0:45.3 | Okay, so those who know know, Flagship Pioneering is a singular unique biotech VC fund |
| 0:51.3 | that both invests in and builds platform companies that change the world. |
| 0:56.0 | Think of companies like Moderna, the COVID-R-N-A therapeutic vaccine. |
| 1:00.0 | That came out of flagship pioneering as one of its companies. |
| 1:04.0 | Marga is also the co-founder and CEO of a flagship portfolio company, Monty Health, which is an AI platform company, |
| 1:10.0 | enabling the predictable discovery |
| 1:11.6 | of breakthrough small molecule medicines to treat and preempt chronic disease. |
| 1:16.6 | Margot grew up in Chicago and she got her bachelor's degree in economics at Harvard |
| 1:21.6 | and then joined McKinsey as a business analyst out of undergrad. |
| 1:24.6 | Two years after McKinsey, she went to business school at Harvard and then rejoined McKinsey for 14 years, |
| 1:31.3 | rising up the ranks to become a partner in the retail and marketing practices. |
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