I remember meeting and hanging out with Jason Kelly in Cambridge (several times, I think the first one was at a Grey Thumb meetup, an artificial life themed gro

I remember meeting and hanging out with Jason Kelly in Cambridge (several times, I think the first one was at a Grey Thumb meetup, an artificial life themed group), the work on refactoring the T7 bacteriophage really sparked my interest in bioengineering and got me involved with DIYbio. Soon after Jason co-founded Ginkgo Bioworks. Both as an amateur biologist and as a YC alumnus I'm really happy to see Ginkgo survive and grow. Just as one of the goals of DIYbio are to be to biotech what the Homebrew Computer Club was to personal computing, Ginko's systematizing and modularizing of biotech can be the Altair 8080 of life sciences. (Edit: well, perhaps targeting truly amateur kit users is early right now, and it's more about modularizing aspects of biotech, I like the spirit I expressed in the previous paragraph :>)