Noor Siddiqui is building a future free of inherited disease. As Founder & CEO of Orchid, she has developed embryo screening technology that reads 99% of an embryo's DNA - 100 times more information than legacy tools. In this episode of Forecast 2050, Nebular General Partner Finn Murphy sits down with Noor in San Francisco to discuss why embryo screening and artificial wombs may become the default way humans reproduce, what's really driving falling birth rates, the moonshot nobody is funding, and why a generation of young people with world-changing energy has been left with nowhere to put it.
Extended Show Notes: https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/sex-is-for-fun-orchid-ivf-is-for
Transcript (with links): https://finnmurphyirl.substack.com/p/forecast-2050-transcript-episode
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Rolling the Dice No More: The Embryo Screening Revolution
05:27 Artificial Wombs Are the Tech Challenge of Our Time
07:47 Why Aren't We Having Kids?
17:03 The Broken Generational Contract
18:56 Nature Beats Out Nurture
21:45 AI & Genetic Technology Could Give Us Superhuman Powers
30:54 Noor’s Plan for 2050
37:10 What We Lose When Old People Run Everything
Noor Siddiqui is the Founder & CEO of Orchid, the world's first whole genome embryo screening company.
Noor on X: https://x.com/noor_siddiqui_
Orchid: https://www.orchidhealth.com/
Forecast 2050 is a series about the next 25 years—and the builders, thinkers, and leaders shaping what comes next.
Finn on X: https://x.com/FinnMurphy12
Finn on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finn-murphy-16160465/
Nebular is a venture capital firm based in New York City investing in early-stage companies.
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