Arvind Gupta Quotes

A lot of people said this was impossible. ‘You can’t build biotech for $50,000. You can’t build anything for $50,000.’ Well, that’s no longer true, and we’re proving it.

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else – from any book, from any, like – fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.

Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.

The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.

IndieBio’s capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.

The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can’t have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

I promise you… nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

We don’t want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.

Put your life into it – it’s not that hard.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there – and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products – and then kept asking the question, ‘What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?’

We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types of bio startups and creating a much-needed engine to drive Silicon Valley into the next century.

I thought that biology and macro economies, especially, was fairly related between the systems level, and so I graduated the university with a degree in Genetic Engineering and Economies, and I moved to San Francisco to try out how to make money with just the ideas itself.