Arvind Gupta

“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.”

“I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.”

“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.”

“The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.”

“You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.”

“Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.”

“Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.”

“The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.”

“We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.”

“The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.”

“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.”

“The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.”

“We are seeing a new wave of young biologists that are attacking old problems with new tools and fresh ideas, leading to new types of bio startups and creating a much-needed engine to drive Silicon Valley into the next century.”

“Put your life into it - it's not that hard.”

“We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.”

“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?'”

“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.”

“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.”

“Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.”

“We don't want to end up in a class war. We want everyone to have food, clean water, and a long life expectancy.”