A lot of people said this was impossible. ‘You can’t build biotech for $50,000. You can’t build anything for $50,000.’ Well, that’s no longer true, and we’re proving it. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
It’s possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else – from any book, from any, like – fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there – and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products – and then kept asking the question, ‘What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?’ Arvind Gupta Read Quote
I thought that biology and macro economies, especially, was fairly related between the systems level, and so I graduated the university with a degree in Genetic Engineering and Economies, and I moved to San Francisco to try out how to make money with just the ideas itself. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
If you’re trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that’s really important to our mission at Indie Bio. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don’t actually need a fully stocked lab. Arvind Gupta Read Quote
