Serial entrepreneur Jess Mah discusses cutting-edge biotechnology advances and in-vitro gametogenesis with host Shaan Puri.
Insight
Mah: Ideas are worthless is Silicon Valley's worst advice
“I think it's some of the worst advice I've ever heard in Silicon Valley.
So what's your take?
My take is that ideas are really fricking important.
And if you have the wrong idea, you'd be a great team and you're screwed.”
Assertion Supported
Mah: Jet buyers can write off $12M jet with $3M down
“Last year it was 60% upfront, but now with the new administration, it looks like accelerated depreciation is back. So if you bought a twelve million dollar airplane, financed it, you can write off the whole twelve million dollars off your tax bill, even though…”
Disclosure
Mah: I stepped down as CEO to avoid private jet backlash
“If you're an operating CEO of a company, you're going to get shat on by your employees, your customers, your investors, and I realized that that would be a problem for me a few years ago, so that's why I stopped being an operating CEO, actually.”
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Jess Mah predicts longevity advances will extend human lifespans past 120
“And then what's also realistic, I think, is extending our lives by 30%. I think we need to be prepared to live till we're a 120 or longer.”
Disclosure
Jess Mah is building a biotech company to rehabilitate cancer cells
“And if you could train them and coach your cells, so killing them, let's rehabilitate them, get them to integrate back in with their surroundings, then you could fix cancer. And so we're working on a company around that”
Insight
Mah: Loyalty to a single tax accountant is a major mistake
“And I think the mistake people make with taxes is they have their one tax person and that person worked with their parents and they've been loyal, but actually this is a very bad place to have loyalty. It's really good to talk to like, I've talked to dozens of…”