Sadeghi: Plummeting Sequencing Costs Make a DNA Application Layer Inevitable
Kian Sadeghi · How to Become Relentless as an Entrepreneur (Kian Sadeghi, Nucleus) · May 28, 2024 · at 8:16
Nucleus founder Kian Sadeghi recounts the core thesis that led him to drop out of UPenn and build a consumer genomics company.
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“There is an inevitability that there's going to be this kind of exponential proliferation in this whole genome data, and someone's going to have to build this kind of application layer for DNA, like that, that, of course that's going to happen, right? I mean, it's very clear this is turning towards zero.”
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