Global AI Report Editorial
"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he...
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Key people or organizations: We, Vijay Pande, VZVC
Specific figures mentioned: 30, $4 billion
Story focus: "We're not doing 30 bets a year"
Source context: Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is...
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Original source: TechCrunch