Rare Diseases
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
No Priors 
the a16z Podcast
5 statements about Rare Diseases, every show
Zuckerberg: Studying rare edge cases yields more insights than common diseases
“I think one of the interesting things from, you know, science and engineering is that often, you know, you can hit your head against the wall on the common problems, and in this case, diseases, but a lot of times you, like, learn a lot more about a system from…”
Chan: Most medical conditions should be treated as rare diseases
“And so those are rare, like, and, but I really think most diseases should be thought of as rare diseases. Because each one of our biology is different.”
Horowitz: Venture capital cannot fund rare disease cures due to $1B costs
“One of the things that's almost impossible to do from a venture capital standpoint is cure rare disease, because it costs a billion dollars to bring a drug to market, and then they don't all work, so, you know, multiply that. And there just aren't that many, i…”
Spohr: Rare diseases affect as many Americans as cardiac disease
“There are as many people in America, excuse me, suffering from a rare disease as there are people suffering from cardiac disease.”
Gimenez: Decentralized biotech enables curing long-tail rare diseases centralized systems ignore
“If you think about that same model of like this long tail, it can be profitable if you think at a global scale, and we actually reduce the cost to actually start these kinds of innovations and distribute them to people. And think about that in the context of d…”