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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

· 1 min read· 2 months ago

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 thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

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