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Kelly: Ginkgo gives 10x super-voting shares to all active employees
“At Ginkgo, we took this Silicon Valley idea of founder super voting shares and extended it to the entire employee base. So it's not just us, anyone who's at the company, and it goes away if you leave, ah, gets 10 X voting for their B shares versus the A shares…”
Jason Kelly Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 29:32 No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
Opinion
Kelly: AI biosecurity lone-actor risk is low due to data scarcity
“The idea that, like, we know how to, like, exactly, like, design for that sort of thing is low. You could try something, but it's not like, oh, I know for sure it's just someone's waiting to do it. Remember, you need data. It's hard to accumulate that. Yeah, i…”
Jason Kelly Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 23:47 No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
Disclosure
Kelly: Ginkgo runs pathogen wastewater monitoring in US, Qatar, and Ukraine
“One of the things we're doing is, like, with the CDC, we run programs where we collect wastewater from inbound airplanes, and we sequence the DNA, and we look for pathogens, we look, we monitor variants and all this, both for flu and COVID, and I can add other…”
Jason Kelly Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 21:24 No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
Assertion Supported
Kelly: Ginkgo operates a 300,000-square-foot robotic data lab
“Yeah, we have a 300,000 square foot robotic lab that they built in the last 10 years, and so we generate that, and we do it in service of our customer projects, we can do our own data generation, but yeah, that's where it comes from.”
Jason Kelly Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 19:38 No Priors Ep. 34 | With Ginkgo Bioworks Co-Founder and CEO Jason Kelly
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