Nucleus founder Kian Sadeghi describes his monastic year of self-study after dropping out of college before launching Nucleus Genomics.
Opinion
Sadeghi: 23andMe Offers Superficial Traits Despite Massive Advances in Genetics
“There's all this research, there's all these insights, there's all this innovation, right? But we're stuck with Do you like chocolate or not from 23 and me? Like, what's going on here, right?”
Disclosure
Sadeghi Cold-Emailed the Future Nucleus CSO 50 Questions Under a Pseudonym
“I emailed, under pseudonym, just to be honest with you, under pseudonym, our, again, current chief scientific officer, and I asked him, like, you know, 50 questions, right? And he was kind enough to actually, he answered all the questions.”
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Sadeghi: Plummeting Sequencing Costs Make a DNA Application Layer Inevitable
“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, …”
Insight
Sadeghi: Deep Scientific Mastery Reveals the Gap Between What Could and Does Exist
“And what people don't, I think, understand or have a good intuition for is that when you get deep enough into any scientific discipline or any field, you start seeing old intellectual cracks. So you understand two things. One of the things you understand is, w…”
Insight
Sadeghi: Entrepreneurial Relentlessness Is Driven by Love and Fear
“If you think about relentlessness, to me it's kind of, it means like a pathological motivation. Like you're pathologically motivated. And where does pathological motivation come from? It comes from, I think, two things. It comes from love and fear.”
Insight
Sadeghi: Strong Intellectual Fundamentals Allow Founders to Re-Derive Anything
“If the fundamental, if the intellectual fundamentals are strong enough, you can re-derive anything.”