What's it like being the first to develop a new way to detect COVID-19 using gene-editing technology? Janice Chen joins us (with special guest Sixth Street's Jeff Pootoolal) to talk about building a business around CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology. We discuss how she and her co-founders prioritize the myriad potential applications for CRISPR, creating the first CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test, and how working in the collaborative environment of Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of CRISPR, and Sixth Street Chief Science Advisor Jennifer Doudna’s lab at UC Berkeley prepared her for life as an entrepreneur. We get into servant leadership, strategies for stepping back and connecting the dots, and how there’s no substitute for rolling up your sleeves and doing the work -- especially when that work is searching through thermal vents for life-saving enzymes. Learn more at https://sixthstreet.com/podcasts/

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