A Think2earn podcast

Biochemical Beings

Biology is becoming software. We get the people building what comes next into a room, record the conversation, and publish the whole thing.

For forty years we learned to program computers. Now we are learning to program cells. Reading DNA is cheap and getting cheaper, writing it is catching up, and models can predict what a protein or a cell will do before anyone runs the experiment.

The drugs get the headlines. The lasting value is in the layer underneath: sequencing, synthesis, measurement, data, models, the open tools everything runs on, and the communities forming around them. Small teams can build pieces of that layer today that were out of reach three years ago.

Most of it is not written down yet. It lives in the heads of the people building it. That is what this show is for.

The first conversation

Three builders. Three different bets on where biology goes next.

One question runs under all of it. As biology turns into an engineering problem, what actually has to get built, and who ends up owning it? We are after where these three agree, and where they do not.

Role Person What they bring
Co-host Carol Hardware, large-scale data collection, getting AI-driven value back to users
Co-host Yoni Facilitation, the investor's view, public markets, the infrastructure thesis
Guest Nathan Cheng Longevity Biotech Fellowship and Longevity Marketcap. Aging is solvable; the bottleneck is talent and coordination. Already runs a podcast.
Guest Michal (mgoes) SuperHuman Fund, BiohackerDAO, Intra. Backs enhancement over longevity, and user-owned health data.
Guest (provisional) Someone from OMSF Open Molecular Software Foundation. Open-source software for the molecular sciences. Reaching out via omsf.io.

Open roundtable. Two hosts, three guests, around 75 minutes. Recorded on Google Meet. We publish the full video and transcript, then break out the best of it.

Seed questions

Openers, not a script. We ask one, then let them collide. Tailored to Nathan, Michal, and a potential OMSF guest.

For Nathan Cheng

  1. Your LBF roadmap treats aging as solvable. What infra has to exist before that roadmap works, and what is still missing?
  2. Longevity Marketcap has covered this space for years. Where is the real moat in longevity infrastructure, and what did you get wrong or right early on?
  3. You built fellowship pipelines and capital (LBF, Healthspan). Is talent coordination itself bio infrastructure? Where is the moat there?
  4. Could a Hermes/Llama-style open community happen in biotech? What would have to be open that is closed today?
  5. XBI is at an all-time high. Which public infra plays are you actually watching vs hype?

For Michal (mgoes)

  1. You frame enhancement, not longevity. Does that change which infra matters, or just how you sell it?
  2. SuperHuman Fund backs early enhancement tech. What can a small team build now that you would not have funded three years ago?
  3. Intra lets users own fitness data and contribute to research. Is user-owned health data bio infrastructure or a consumer layer on top?
  4. BiohackerDAO mixes community, capital, and products. What actually worked, and what was noise?
  5. You interview builders on Accelerate Bio every two weeks. What infra topic keeps coming up that is not on the internet yet?

For a potential OMSF guest

  1. OMSF builds open software for molecular sciences. What problem is open-source solving here that closed tools cannot?
  2. Your software directory and benchmarks: is standardising molecular tooling bio infrastructure, or just documentation?
  3. Who actually uses OMSF projects today: academics, startups, or big cos? Where is adoption stuck?
  4. What can a small team ship on top of open molecular software now that was not possible three years ago?
  5. If biology is becoming software, is molecular open-source the layer that matters most, or is it downstream of sequencing, data, and AI?

For all three, put them in the same room

  1. Nathan: solve aging. Michal: enhance humans. OMSF: open molecular tools. Are you building the same infra stack or different layers?
  2. Community vs fund vs media vs open-source. What is the minimum stack a new builder needs today?
  3. Where does open molecular software meet user-owned health data, talent pipelines, and capital?
  4. What small company building right now will look obvious in three years?
  5. What should episode 2 cover, and who is missing from this table?

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