Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

Welcome YouTube and the Stanford community.

So great to have all of you here, whether you're in the Stanford community or in our YouTube community, it's great to see you virtually.

I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department at Stanford and the director of Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise Startups.

As you know by now, the entrepreneurial thought leader seminar is brought to you by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.

Today, it is a special day at ETL because we have one of our alums and one of the great supporters of the Stanford community.

We're thrilled and delighted to welcome both Trevor Martin and Ershit Parik to ETL.

Dr. Trevor Martin, I should say, is the CEO and co-founder

of Mammoth Biosciences, which is building the most diverse

toolbox for using CRISPR technology. For those that aren't familiar with CRISPR,

CRISPR allows you to exquisitely edit DNA with a sensitivity and a precision that's really

unprecedented. It's a new technology, the Nobel Prize, which was awarded for the research on the

potential of CRISPR, was given for research that was

really just done 10 years ago. But it is one of these technologies that's widely viewed as one

of these nonlinear disruptive moments in scientific innovation that's going to usher in a ton

of profound, deep, and broad innovations to come. Mammoth is building an application development platform for CRISPR.

As the name suggests, their goals aren't modest.

Mammoth is addressing challenges across health care, agriculture, environmental monitoring,

bio-defense, and more through the discovery of novel CRISPR systems to power the next generation of

CRISPR-based synthetic biology products. Mammitt's areas of focus include a new novel class

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