ARK INVEST’S NEW DISRUPTOR - GINKGO BIOWORKS - The Grow ANYTHING Company!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_7bLWo-Ds
- Ark Invest and Cathie Wood are laser focused on disruptive companies. Their newest accumulation is Ginkgo Bioworks - The Grow Anything Company! Ginkgo is going public through Soaring Eagle Acquisition (SRNG). On August 3rd, Cathie Wood began buying (SRNG) in ARKK and ARKG. She is loading up with some serious momentum. Soaring Eagle is intending to go public this quarter under the ticker symbol (DNA). We can’t tell you what to buy and never would - but we are following the leader here and adding Ginkgo to our MoonShot Money portfolio. Subscribe to our channel and follow us on Twitter @moonshotmoney1 for all the latest......................................... -
$SRNG - Ginkgo Bioworks, The Company That Can Grow Anything | Interview, Jason Kelly, CEO Co-Founder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj36F7s4pMI
- This is the most meaningful interview our team has done to date. We flew to Boston, MA to visit Ginkgo Bioworks, a disruptive new company leading the way in synthetic bioengineering. We toured their foundry and interviewed both Jason Kelly, Co-Founder & CEO, and Anna Marie Wagner, SVP Corporate Development. We encourage everyone to investing the time watching this entire video, and using the quick-links below to navigate to different segments of the interview. To learn more about Ginkgo Bioworks, check out their website (https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/) as well as their video library on their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nD... - Want to connect with the Ginkgo Bioworks team?
QUICK-LINKS: Fast-forward to any segment by clicking links below
00:50 - What is Synthetic Biology? "What do we want biology to do to make our lives better?"
02:50 - How is Ginkgo Bioworks disruptive? What industries / sectors are ripe for disruption? - The way Ginkgo see the world: just like horizontal software platforms, Ginkgo is building programmable platform to develop biology for all markets. Physical industries will be disrupted, not informational industries.
05:37 - Business model is just like a mobile app store of which people develop apps on -same thing, just instead of apps, its live cells.
06:35 - Why Ginkgo is misunderstood + history of the word 'biotech' and how people associate it only with pharmaceuticals when it should be understood as programming organisms, and what can that programming do to change our lives
09:45 - How is DNA programmable?
12:30 - Solving vital problems in the world (great examples of how massive industries like pesticides are being disrupted)
16:10 - Impossible Burger explained + "Our ability to design biology today in the ark of whats going to be possible is a joke, its like computers in the 1950's, there's so much room for improvement in our ability to design cells..."
18:01 - Enabling Ginkgo customers to develop solutions for everyday problems + Motif Foodworks, a Ginkgo subsidiary company, explained (https://madewithmotif.com/)
19:49 - Covid 19: What role has Ginkgo Bioworks played during the pandemic, and how has the company adapted to meet the needs of our new way of living?
22:52 - Breaking down the economics of synthetic biology + how automation is essential for Ginkgo's operation
24:50 - Breaking down the economics of a project / working with a customer (Anna Marie Wagner)
27:40 - Incubator for start-ups and entrepreneurs to build biotech businesses on the Ginkgo platform (mentorship & access to the platform in exchange for equity)
29:30 - Project pipeline overview (500 projects, 500 streams of revenue)
30:54 - Strategic parter: Cronos Group (cannabis) explained
33:00 - Government projects ................................ -