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The Biotech Startups Podcast

The Biotech Startups Podcast

The Biotech Startups Podcast by Excedr features weekly conversations with founders, scientists, and investors driving biotech innovation. Host Jon Chee dives into the challenges of building biotech startups, from pre-seed to IPO. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Excedr · Jon Chee

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Show overview

The Biotech Startups Podcast has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 270 episodes. That works out to roughly 160 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 29 min and 40 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 67 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 96 episodes published. Published by Jon Chee.

Episodes
270
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
35 min
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

The Biotech Startups Podcast by Excedr features weekly conversations with founders, scientists, and investors driving biotech innovation. Host Jon Chee dives into the challenges of building biotech startups, from pre-seed to IPO. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Latest Episodes

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🧬 Product Thinking, Scientific Progress, & the Work of Building | Nathan Clark Rerelease (2/4)

Aug 20, 202627 min

🧬 Execution, Liquidity, & Founder Lessons | Nathan Clark Rerelease (1/4)

Aug 17, 202636 min

🧬 AI, Mechanisms, & the Next Wave of Drug Discovery | David Li Rerelease (4/4)

Aug 13, 202627 min

🧬 De-Risking Biotech's Biggest Bets | David Li Rerelease (3/4)

Aug 10, 202620 min

🧬 Choosing Conviction Over Convention in Biotech | David Li Rerelease (2/4)

Aug 6, 202625 min

🧬 The Outsider Mindset Behind Successful Biotech Founders | David Li Rerelease (1/4)

Aug 3, 202630 min

🧬 This Ex-Googler Replaced a Whole Drug R&D Team | Javier Tordable (4/4)

Jul 30, 202659 min

🧬 From Games to Cancer Research: Why Drug Discovery Is an Economics Problem | Javier Tordable (3/4)

Jul 27, 202622 min

🧬 16 Years at Google Taught Me How to Scale From 1 to 150 People | Javier Tordable (2/4)

Jul 23, 202628 min

🧬 Video Games & a Whim Led Me to Microsoft | Javier Tordable (1/4)

Jul 20, 202626 min

🧬 Crossover Investing, Gene Therapy & LP Trust | Stephanie Sirota Rerelease (3/3)

Jul 16, 202630 min

🧬 Cycles, Conviction & Royalty Capital in Biotech Investing | Stephanie Sirota Rerelease (2/3)

Jul 13, 202632 min

🧬 Competition, Coaching & Curiosity: The Investor’s Mindset | Stephanie Sirota Rerelease (1/3)

Jul 9, 202624 min

🧬 Transforming Food Systems with Lactoferrin & Precision Fermentation | Fengru Lin Rerelease (3/3)

Jul 6, 202628 min

🧬 Sales Funnels, Patents, & Cell-Based Milk: TurtleTree’s Early Bets | Fengru Lin Rerelease (2/3)

Jul 2, 202624 min

🧬 From Hong Kong Childhood to Global Sales: Connecting the Dots | Fengru Lin Rerelease (1/3)

Jun 29, 202622 min

🧬 AI in Biotech: When Sustainable Growth Replaces Hype | Mati Gill (4/4)

Jun 25, 202621 min

🧬 Venture Studio Model: Building the Future of AI Drug Discovery | Mati Gill (3/4)

Jun 22, 202647 min

🧬 From Law School to Teva: Learning a 45,000-Person Organization | Mati Gill (2/4)

Jun 18, 202636 min

🧬 The Rule of Three: Career, Family & One Other Thing | Mati Gill (1/4)

Jun 15, 202624 min
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