MIT

“Bioengineers from MIT have written a software called Cello, which allows them to do exactly the same thing for biochemical circuits. You first code the circuit, in this case, in the very same language, in Verilog, the same language you'd use to code electronic…”

“Internet or no internet, a disproportionate number of them come from a dozen institutions such as Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, you know, and Northwestern places like that.”

“For VCs like us, like it actually, the fact that you got admitted MIT is itself a credential. Yeah. Even if you never went right. Even if you never actually completed the thing.”

“I think Facebook, you're on the board of Meta. They used to only hire people from Stanford and MIT, or I think, or Harvard, Stanford, MIT. Like they had like strict rules on them. Nobody has that role anymore. Like that role's gone. Like, I don't know any comp…”

“When someone from Harvard, or MIT, or Stanford, they always are just there for the commercial, you know.”

“It's been enough for this group at MIT to use some of these relatively, you know, narrow purpose-built biology models and create totally new antibiotics. New in the sense that they have a new mechanism of action. Like they're affecting the bacteria in a new wa…”