Our guest is Sergey Jakimov, the Founding and Managing Partner of LongeVC, a venture capital firm dedicated to backing early-stage biotech and longevity startups. A serial entrepreneur, Sergey has co-founded ventures like Longenesis, a medical tech startup unlocking biomedical data for drug discovery, and the Longevity Science Foundation, a non-profit advancing healthy human lifespan. He’s been named to Forbes Latvia's 30 Under 30 in technology and healthcare, and via LongeVC, he invests in innovation in areas including therapeutics, diagnostics, and personalized medicine.

In this episode, Sergey warns about the rising danger of misinformation disguised as health advice—where influencers and hype outpace evidence-based science. I hope you enjoy our discussion as we unpack this public health challenge and explore solutions for a more credible biotech landscape.

01:22 Meet Sergey Jakimov
06:14 Developing a longevity focus
10:47 A typical day at LongeVC
13:26 The LongeVC portfolio
17:28 Misinformation as health crisis
26:04 The harm of bad advice
33:16 The impact on biotech industry funding
36:18 Strategies for addressing misinformation
42:17 Optimism about trends in longevity

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Misinformation is a public health crisis - here's how to fix it