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Or, they’ll follow the path of entrepreneurship from makerspaces in 3D printing and found 2000 nearly identical companies all making an FDM printer. Synthetic b
by tbenst 6y ago
Or, they’ll follow the path of entrepreneurship from makerspaces in 3D printing and found 2000 nearly identical companies all making an FDM printer. Synthetic biology is fundamentally different from software and much harder to build a business than even hardware. That said, the defensible moat is even stronger and there are indeed huge opportunities!
- vikramkr 6y agoI'm well aware of how much harder it is in this space haha, I've spent the past couple years building a company in this space and have run into to all the roadblocks. The advantage of the environment now is that large numbers of people can spend years hacking away at some bio experiment or problem they're interested in for an amount of money that's not out of reach for the upper middle class. There's already the equivalent of a flood of 3d printer companies - so many people working on DIY thermocyclers/gelboxes etc, there's a running joke that a lot if people spend more time making tools than using them to actually do biology, but with time you might see people using those tools to build interesting things. It's not as easy as doing electronics in your garage in the 1970s, but the inflation adjusted price point is probably equivalent (for the equiptment that is - the house the garage is attached to probably costs quite a bit more...)