Churi: Trust Ventures avoids science projects and requires settled science
Sal Churi · Sal Churi, Keri Findley, and Wesley Chan: Innovators Changing Our World Right Now · Joe Lonsdale · Sep 3, 2021 · at 16:04
Sal Churi, general partner at Trust Ventures, outlines his firm's strategy of focusing on regulatory battles rather than taking on unproven scientific risk.
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“We're not engaged in science projects, right? We want something where the science is fairly settled.”
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