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Opinion
Lamm: Direct air carbon capture is a dumb climate solution
“So when we were solving these problems, if we are solving it in dumb ways, like, I think, you know, a lot of the air capture systems in other ways, the direct air caption carbon systems and others in a lot of other ways that we're trying to solve climate are d…”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 37:46 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
Opinion
Lamm: Academic research labs are underfunded, politicized, and dilapidated
“Go work back in academia where you're underfunded. It's all like massively politicized and it's massively competitive and your labs are like held up by pizza boxes, right?”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 52:04 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
Opinion
Lamm: Reprogramming scientists to use Jira was harder than reprogramming stem cells
“I think the hardest thing we've done is reprogram, not stem cells, but scientists to work in things like JIRA and Smartsheets, like traditional software, like things”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 48:44 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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Lamm: Working on mammoths gives Colossal an unfair recruiting advantage
“We have this unfair advantage of recruiting, being that you get to work on things like wooly mammoth cells and like, You know, done arts versus like yeast in an academic lab”
Ben Lamm Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 51:51 Race to Save Humanity: Inside $12B Colossal Biosciences & $3.8B Astromech
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