Bob Langer - What I Learned from Founding More than 30 Startups

MIT Institute Professor and serial entrepreneur Robert Langer discusses lessons learned from helping to launch numerous biotech startups.

[@naleshdalele]

Elements of Startup: 1) Have we made a real breakthrough? 2) Have we advanced the technology far enough? 3) Do we have good patent protection? 4) Do we have driven people in lab that may want to be part of it? 5) Is it potentially a platform technology? Characteristics of great CEO: 1) Be extremely bright 2) Be charismatic, have leadership qualities and be persuasive 3) Have vision 4) Be people's person 5) Work hard

[@siva9310]

Very nice

[@abhishekdev258]

That pretty much sums it all up. Thanks 👍

[@julzee111]

And how many deaths do u project from this breakthru? Because in the end, isn’t that the true measure of this man’s success. Vitamin A pushing Eugenicist.

[@smilefaxxe2557]

thanks 🙏