“There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.” PeopleWorldWayHumansTurnsPowerfulCompanyRevolutionLatePostsToo LateDigitalMost PowerfulSurvivorCrashHypeGenomeDigital RevolutionSequencing Author:Juan Enriquez
“Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.” WritingReadingPowerfulCompanyBoysPeriodsCodeCopiesVery PowerfulCloningReading Life Author:Juan Enriquez
“Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.” CountryPowerfulTechnologyPositionRelativeMultipleImplicationsNew TechnologyReally Powerful Author:Juan Enriquez
“When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.” ThinkingSaidImportantCountryHelpingSimplePowerfulGrewGrew UpValleysMentorKoreaSiliconSilicon ValleyCambridgeTaiwanSimple Thoughts Author:Juan Enriquez