Freenome, every mention
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every year 2017 anyone Vijay Pande 12Sonal Chokshi 2Gabriel Ott 2Frank Chen 2Ben Horowitz 2Jorge Conde 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Freenome comes up
On Career Moves and Business Leadership
- ▶ 38:14 Ben Horowitz You know, we're invested in a company called Freenome, which uses kind of machine learning against biology to diagnose cancer. 2 times in the scene
The Promise of AI
- ▶ 29:28 Frank Chen The company Freenome is working on a cancer diagnostic by reading the DNA that's free floating in your bloodstream. 2 times in the scene
On Machine Learning in Medicine and More
- ▶ 2:28 Vijay Pande So a company like Freenome will use machine learning and deep learning with genomics to be able to tell whether you have cancer early enough, such that the cure rate, success rate could be 80%, a hundred percent.
- ▶ 5:26 Vijay Pande So a great example of this is the Freenome co-founder, Gabe, who has a PhD in biology, and I asked him, ah, what deep learning code he's using, as of all the many variants, he said, I'm using the one I wrote.
- ▶ 9:23 Vijay Pande Yeah, you could take a company like Omada, which has, uh, this therapy for pre-diabetics, or a company like Freenome, which has the cancer therapy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Vijay Pande Yeah, I think, you know, I'm very excited about this recent investment we've done in Freenome. 3 times in the scene