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Afeyan: The romantic 'hero founder' startup folklore is largely unnecessary
“There's a lot of folklore in the startup world, which I'd say emphasizes the role of the individual. There's a hero kind of notion that's created, you know, against all odds. And here we were claiming that conceiving, creating, growing companies could be the o…”
Afeyan: Precision in guessing what works is unimportant when pioneering new fields
“The accuracy with which you have to guess what's going to work Is not at all important. Because we get into these brand new areas, it's wide open to find where value lies, right? Imagine if we waited three, four years as people did, or 10 years in the case of …”
Afeyan: Flagship started four platform projects alongside Moderna's foundation
“In the exact same year that we Did the foundation laying for what became Moderna. We also started four other projects that were each platforms in their own right, going after different aspects of biomedical opportunity space, each with as big a leap, each with…”