Noubar Afeyan

5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2025 by Noubar Afeyan · across every show →

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Feb 27, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Afeyan: Flagship has recently launched ventures in semiconductor and carbon-capture materials
“And as we speak now, we have started things recently in the material space. So kind of semi-conducting materials, carbon capturing materials.”
Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 14:04 No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan
Feb 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Afeyan: Warp Speed-Style Advance Market Commitments Would Work Outside Pandemics
“And by the way, a key thing that Operation Warp Speed did was to set a value outcome for people who tried. Basically the government said we will buy X many doses at this price. And so we could go to investors and say, listen, if we can, we don't know what the …”
Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 33:40 No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan
Feb 27, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Afeyan: Flagship Pioneering employs 550 people and files 600-700 patents annually
“So today flagship is 550 people, about 200 plus are Scientists, engineers, MDs. We file six, 700 patents a year centrally, and every one of the things we work on has essentially no connection to what's been done before.”
Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 20:28 No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan
Feb 27, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Afeyan: Flagship engineered photosynthetic bacteria to produce diesel at Joule
“One of the most advanced ways we could make carbon neutral liquid fuels was to engineer photosynthetic bacteria that usually grows in the depths of oceans. Really cool bacterium that sees a little bit of photons. We engineered these things to make diesel. It c…”
Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 12:21 No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan
Feb 27, 2025 bearish
Insight
Afeyan: Renewable fuel innovators cannot command a price premium over commodity diesel
“The price of diesel, whether it's renewable or not, is the price of diesel. The price of carbon when we started was 50 bucks a ton, when we ended it was five. And When we started, the U S was energy dependent. And when we were done, the U S was cushing with en…”
Noubar Afeyan Feb 27, 2025 ▶ 13:00 No Priors Ep. 104 | With Flagship Pioneering CEO and Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan
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