Read-Alouds, Continued
Today we're continuing a series we started a while ago of read-alouds (for more context on the why and why now check out episode #500 on how we podcast!).The first was episode #544 in April, It's Time...
7 Juli 202051s
Journal Club: Revisiting Eroom's Law
Eroom’s Law is Moore’s Law spelled backwards. It’s a term that was coined in a Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article by researchers at Sanford Bernstein and describes the exponential decrease in bioph...
5 Juli 20209min
Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the visibility of scientists and the scientific process to the broader public; suddenly, scientists working on virology and infectious disease dynamics have seen th...
30 Juni 202034min
Journal Club: Therapeutic Video Game on Trial
In this episode of the a16z bio journal club, we cover one of the key clinical trials that supported the recent FDA approval of the first prescription video game. The game was developed by Akili Inter...
28 Juni 202017min
Gross Margins, Early to Late: What They Do (and Don't) Tell You
Gross margins are essentially a company's revenue from products and services minus the costs to deliver those products and services to customers, and it's one of the most important financial metrics a...
27 Juni 202036min
Building Products for Power Users
As more digital natives have entered the workplace, they have brought with them the expectation that their software should both be a joy to use and allow them to be power users. That is, users who con...
24 Juni 202023min
Journal Club: Building a Better Chloroplast
In this episode of the a16z bio Journal Club, bio deal team partner Judy Savitskaya and Lauren Richardson discuss research that aims to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis and carbon fixation. Th...
21 Juni 202020min
Real Estate in a Pandemic: Renters and Landlords (Part 2)
This episode is the second in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focused on prospective home buyers, sellers, and existing homeowners. This episode, Part 2, a...
17 Juni 202031min
