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Episode 39: Flagship Pioneering
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Flagship Pioneering doesn’t wait for scientific breakthroughs. It builds them. In this episode, we dive deep into the origin story of one of the most influential venture creation firms in biotech and the mind behind it, Noubar Afeyan. From his early life shaped by uncertainty to the founding of a firm that treats biology like an engineering discipline, we explore how Flagship redefined what it means to create companies from first principles.
We unpack how Flagship pioneered the venture creation model, its early proximity to the MIT and Harvard ecosystem, and how relationships…
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