Orchid's Noor Siddiqui: "Super-babies"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times correspondent brings on Noor Siddiquui, founder of Orchid, to talk about screening embryos (5:00), starting the company (9:30), hiring people as a first time founder (13:00), targeting ageing at the very beginning (15:00), how it works (18:20), why she thinks this is the future of conception (22:00), the need for regulation (31:00), the potential to exacerbate societal problems (38:00), why longevity enthusiasts invested (40:30), and the potential conservative backlash (49:40).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.0	How far do you think it will go?
0:06.0	I mean, do we get to the point where it's like,
0:08.0	sex is for fun?
0:10.0	This is for reproduction.
0:12.0	Yeah, totally.
0:13.0	I think that's totally where it's going.
0:15.0	I think that it's going to be,
0:16.0	I think much faster than people think the default way
0:18.0	that people choose to have kids.
0:37.3	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:39.8	This week we're going to take, we're going to do a little shift, little gears.
0:44.2	We'll talk about babies.
0:46.4	That's right.
0:47.6	So, you know, you've been listening to this podcast, I hope for years.
0:51.8	And if you have, you know that Silicon Valley is obsessed with longevity.
0:55.9	We've had pretty much everybody in that space on this pot over the years.
0:59.4	And there's just a river of money.
1:01.4	Many billions of dollars are flowing to startups working on everything from, you know,
1:05.9	a single God pill to extend healthy life, to therapies, to reverse aging, others to slow it down,
1:12.9	biohackers who are taken off label drugs and the belief that they will slow down the kind of
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