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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 284 episodes. That works out to roughly 170 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 earlier today, with 81 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 96 episodes published. Published by Jon Chee.

Episodes
284
Running
2022–2026 · 4y
Median length
34 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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Letting Go Is a Leadership Skill | Leslie Loveless (4/4)

Oct 8, 202637 min

The Employee Number Five Leap That Built a Relationship Business | Leslie Loveless (3/4)

Oct 5, 202633 min

Winning President's Club with Zero Sales Experience | Leslie Loveless (2/4)

Oct 1, 202627 min

How Teaching High School Prepares You to Run a Company | Leslie Loveless (1/4)

Sep 28, 202634 min

The Catalyst Mindset Behind a Lean Biotech | Örn Almarsson (4/4)

Sep 24, 202625 min

The Delivery Problem Behind Moderna's Breakthrough | Örn Almarsson (3/4)

Sep 21, 202629 min

Leaving Merck to Build a Biotech From Scratch | Örn Almarsson (2/4)

Sep 17, 202630 min

How a Guitarist Became a Drug Delivery Pioneer | Örn Almarsson (1/4)

Sep 14, 202625 min

Don't Build Your Own Cathedral: The Hidden Cost of Lab Space | Philip Borden (4/4)

Sep 10, 202643 min

The Biotech Deal That Became a Leadership Crisis | Philip Borden (3/4)

Sep 7, 202630 min

Cold Calling Your Way Into Venture Capital | Philip Borden (2/4)

Sep 3, 202621 min

What Rural Indiana Can Teach Biotech Founders About Trust | Philip Borden (1/4)

Aug 31, 202617 min

🧬 Making Lab Data Actionable Through Automation | Nathan Clark Rerelease (4/4)

Aug 27, 202634 min

🧬 Why Wet-Lab Data Needs More Than ETL | Nathan Clark Rerelease (3/4)

Aug 24, 202629 min

🧬 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
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