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Cold Calling Your Way Into Venture Capital | Philip Borden (2/4)
03/09/2026 | 21 mins.
Philip Borden explains how realizing he did not want to pursue a PhD or spend his career at the lab bench led him toward venture capital. With a molecular biology degree, limited finance experience, and a list of biotech VC firms, he picked up the phone and cold-called his way into Frazier Healthcare in Seattle.
What Rural Indiana Can Teach Biotech Founders About Trust | Philip Borden (1/4)
31/08/2026 | 17 mins.
Philip Borden grew up in Plymouth, Indiana, in a family shaped by agriculture. He talks about his grandparents' farms, his father's work as an agricultural lender, and the early lessons he absorbed about local businesses and long-term relationships.
🧬 Making Lab Data Actionable Through Automation | Nathan Clark Rerelease (4/4)
27/08/2026 | 34 mins.
In this part of the podcast, Nathan Clark explains how Ganymede approaches data integration and automation in life sciences. He discusses why lab instruments and workflows require customized connectors, how a developer platform can help teams adapt integrations quickly, and why moving data online is only part of the challenge.
🧬 Why Wet-Lab Data Needs More Than ETL | Nathan Clark Rerelease (3/4)
24/08/2026 | 29 mins.
Nathan Clark walks through his work at Benchling, where he managed the Insights business intelligence product and helped develop an early machine learning effort. He explains why operational wet-lab data is fundamentally different from omics data, and why the relationships between samples, programs, instruments, locations, and people matter as much as the experimental results.
🧬 Product Thinking, Scientific Progress, & the Work of Building | Nathan Clark Rerelease (2/4)
20/08/2026 | 27 mins.
The conversation then turns to product management. Nathan describes the discipline as understanding why a product should exist, grounding decisions in user needs, and translating research into what a team builds. His advice for early-stage founders is direct: stop coding until they've done enough customer research to understand the problem.

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About The Biotech Startups Podcast

The Biotech Startups Podcast by Excedr features weekly conversations with founders, scientists, and investors driving biotech innovation. Host Jon Chee dives into the challenges of building biotech startups, from pre-seed to IPO. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

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