Episode 93. Jason Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks. He has a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
References:
https://www.ginkgo.bio/autonomous-lab
OUTLINE:
00:00 – From Jurassic Park Pilled to MIT
03:00 – Founding Ginkgo During the 2008 Crash
07:00 – Tom Knight & Thinking About Biology Like Software
11:00 – Why Biology Lacked Abstraction (Until Now)
16:00 – The Foundry Model: Centralizing Biology
20:00 – The 5 Levels of Lab Automation
23:00 – Automation vs. Autonomy (Subway vs. Waymo)
27:00 – The Technical Bottleneck: Connecting 150+ Machines
34:30 – The Zymergen Acquisition & Strategic Pivot
38:00 – Level 4 & 5 Labs: The Future of Programmable Biology
