bobbyjimtaylor's profile picture. Co-founder, ex-CEO Precision NanoSystems. Avid interests in biotech, tech, finance, VC, etc.

James Taylor

@bobbyjimtaylor

Co-founder, ex-CEO Precision NanoSystems. Avid interests in biotech, tech, finance, VC, etc.

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What we think about IRR…We only calculate it for investors. We don’t care. You can’t spend it. Cash on cash is THE only thing that matters. And we really don’t model returns. Is fantasy. NPV-super silly. Linked option theory maybe. Disrupt the dogma—equals returns.


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Congrats to Alex Rives and Evolutionary Scale team. Alex was my intern at ARCH and we started some cool companies. Then he said he wanted to go back to school in AI. I thought he was a bit crazy, but he followed his dream. Doing great things…

A 🧵 of how this group got going... got shut down + lost its budget at Meta... got funded by Lux (Nat Friedman + Daniel Gross, Amazon, NVDA)... then got acquired in under 2 years by CZI...



Very cool progress leveraging ai.

Today, we’re announcing the first major discovery made by our AI Scientist with the lab in the loop: a promising new treatment for dry AMD, a major cause of blindness. Our agents generated the hypotheses, designed the experiments, analyzed the data, iterated, even made figures…



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Assessing the functionality of over 4,000 genome variants for their role in cancer, with prominence of impact for those related to the immune system and chronic inflammation nature.com/articles/s4158…


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Imagine being the architect of a revolution in science and technology. As a PM at DARPA, you're required to be an entrepreneur, a visionary, and a catalyst for change! 🧵

mkoeris's tweet image. Imagine being the architect of a revolution in science and technology. As a PM at DARPA, you're required to be an entrepreneur, a visionary, and a catalyst for change!

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Here's an ominous-looking prime number: 1000000000000066600000000000001 It's 666 with 13 zero's on either side & 1's on both ends. I learned about while looking at the work of the brilliant @pickover The mathematical world is full of weird patterns. Or maybe the human brain…


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Today, we lost a visionary. Gordon Moore, thank you for everything.

intel's tweet image. Today, we lost a visionary. 

Gordon Moore, thank you for everything.

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What a game wow


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STAT+: England to sequence genomes of 100,000 newborns, to try to catch illness earlier trib.al/zto7mW4


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In this live webinar, learn new approaches for RNA delivery for the development of vaccines and CAR T cell therapy. Register now: ms.informaengage.com/TIDES-mRNA-DW-…

PrecisionNano's tweet image. In this live webinar, learn new approaches for RNA delivery for the development of vaccines and CAR T cell therapy. 

Register now: ms.informaengage.com/TIDES-mRNA-DW-…

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New research out of Germany shows that saRNA-LNP vaccines offers a promising platform for Ebola treatment. #NanoAssemblr #vaccine #lipidnanoparticles sciencedirect.com/science/articl…


Excellent, congrats. Great to see the continued innovation and investment in #genomicmedicine

Congrats on the raise, @DrSynbio.👏



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Lab grown meat is coming to our (and our pets) dinner 🍲 plates in the US soon and the battle with the animal ag industry as they go bankrupt will be intense! theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…


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In vivo cell therapy and gene editing approaches are the future. Congrats to the @PennMedicine authors on this.


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I'm excited to share the news of @ChanZuckerberg's reinvestment in our work @czbiohub. We will continue to keep making fundamental discoveries and developing new technologies that will help to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century. prn.to/3ExTpoL

prnewswire.com

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces 10-Year Effort to Develop Science and Technologies to Measure...

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) co-founders and co-CEOs Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced that they are doubling down on...


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A thread about our big Biogen $BIIB story this morning. It examines the departure of Al Sandrock, and how his exit was tied directly to continuing troubles w/ Aduhelm and his deteriorating relationship with CEO Michel Vounatsos. statnews.com/2021/12/08/bio…

adamfeuerstein's tweet image. A thread about our big Biogen $BIIB story this morning. 

It examines the departure of Al Sandrock, and how his exit was tied directly to continuing troubles w/ Aduhelm and his deteriorating relationship with CEO Michel Vounatsos. 

statnews.com/2021/12/08/bio…

Great to see this work being described in public. AZ & Moderna’s VEGFA mRNA for regenerative treatment of heart failure

Moderna/AZD8601 program =>



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Congratulations to Flagship-founded Laronde on a successful financing round, which will help advance its novel #eRNA #bioplatform and a broad pipeline of programs across a number of therapeutic categories. @endlessRNA @avakk @diegomiralles

We're thrilled to announce that we have attracted $440 million in investment from world-class institutions to help advance our Endless RNA platform #SeriesB #biotech #financing prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

endlessRNA's tweet image. We're thrilled to announce that we have attracted $440 million in investment from world-class institutions to help advance our Endless RNA platform #SeriesB #biotech #financing prnewswire.com/news-releases/…


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