How I built a $275 million biotech company from nothing

[@ycombinator]

What problem inspired you to start building a company?

[@TheRealPhillipJacobs]

A crisis I'm going through right now with job searching is pushing me to solve it. It's horrible! The current solutions can't be it - there's just no way.

[@marvelousadesina4673]

Hunger

[@TheRealPhillipJacobs]

@@marvelousadesina4673 Solving world hunger? I'm keen to join!!

[@rupamkundu3574]

Death and disease. These are the most fundamental problems challenging humanity that remain unsolved to this day and need urgent solutions. I am building a startup - EternaJuVita that will make it easier for early-stage Biotech startups to succeed and bring cures for many life-threatening diseases to the market. This will include longevity biotech startups too.

[@randynorris925]

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[@chapterme]

Chapters (Powered by ChapterMe) - 00:00 - Backstory 01:00 - Problem with Ovarian Cyst 02:39 - High School and How nVision Medical was Born? 03:34 - Working as an Engineer and Starting a Company 04:24 - Validating the Idea and Focus on the Personal Network 05:52 - Fundraising to Build a Prototype 06:14 - Investors Reaction to Women's Health 06:45 - Difficulty as a Female Founder 07:22 - Getting Funded and Building the only FDA Approved Device to Collect Cells 08:13 - Acquisition by Boston Scientific 09:51 - First YC Healthcare and Bio Partner 11:10 - Outro: Being a Group Partner at YC

[@Flexibot-AI_Shopify_Chatbots]

Serbi's story is a testament to the power of resilience and determination. It's inspiring to see how she turned her personal health scare into a mission to help others detect ovarian cancer early.

[@TanSatori]

It's clear you speak from the heart, Surbhi. Reminded me of a saying : "I have never met a beautiful person who hasn't done a hard thing in their life."

[@anushchandrashetty]

I stopped watching as soon as she said 'Brown woman, woman of colour' like seriously if we are still weighing ourselves down with these archaic notions then what's the use of preferential employment companies are practising today?

[@Smartsalescreator]

Don’t get her wrong she is just stating how she felt back then in her low self esteem stage as being a brown woman. But u can tell for sure that now she is highly successful and has Changed herself esteem.

[@vidsontheinternet]

love this in-depth story about a female founder. She is the role model we need!

[@pscih7149]

THIS STORY IS PHENOMENAL!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[@grammar_shark]

This is an amazing story! So many examples of actionable advice.

[@bg2junge]

Really inspiring, YC must have a treasure trove of seemingly average people achieving high ranks in the business+tech world.

[@frogthekillerorigina]

The repeatability of her mentioning ongoingly that she thought problems in her way might have come as of her being a brown woman is purely annoying. Like she's exactly the example of the fact that despite her color she could create a 275 million dollar company. Money follows value. Money doesn't care about the race nor do VC's. Those statements coming from someone of her caliber are purely nonesense. Being a multiple Founder who has raised money myself I can tell you getting rejected 50 times isn't even bad.

[@justinwyatt8]

No one watching this video actually cares about ovarian health. And neither does this founder. She was lucky enough to be possessed by an idea that happened to be valued by rich people. We only care about being rich while feigning deep values. We only care about the money we can hope to make.

[@minc33]

Inspiring stuff! I always think about how hard SaaS is and then I see biotech which is magnitudes more challenging especially for fundraising

[@boringmanager9559]

Peter Thiel says how one has to be significantly different from the crowd to come up with a fresh vision. And also, I am flabbergasted by how close minded most of the vcs are. Most of them reason about the world in a way:"I don't need it, so no one does"

[@Roxk_Star64]

This is such a beautiful heartfelt story I am in full support of this woman she deserves everything in life, her story needs to be highlighted more as an inspiration to all. Thank You so much for being able to have the strength to keep fighting and see both your dreams and company manifest Surbhi!

[@KevinSims-xu6qb]

shed a tear, congrats to you Surbhi

[@Moyopheus]

Loving these startup founder stories!

[@fabioramos7261]

How many people actually want to have certain habits (waking up early, practicing sports, meditating, etc.) but just can't establish them? This happens for a lot of reasons, which we come to discover later, but getting aware of this sense of inner incoherence broke my heart at the beginning.

[@s3_build]

This is awesome! Biotech >>>

[@danstar5262]

Yeah, I always feel awsome hearing about health 😊

[@work2remotejobs]

Best video you guys have. Can't wait to see KZbin begin in shift into this direction of content

[@mickandriat2751]

This is a very inspiring story, amazing!!

[@allenmandikutse]

Very uplifting and relatable! Thank you for this ❤ inspired to become a group partner soon

[@drno4603]

This is not a biotech. It's a medical device company. Biotech refers to antibody, cellular or viral technology. These types of companies have an a very different startup model. Most YC "biotech" startups are in fact hardware companies.

[@sherahbassard5893]

Thank you - I needed this in my KZbin algorithm! I’m a nurse with a device that I’m trying to bring to market - all by myself!! - I needed this story!! ❤

[@simple5636]

How much money she got from that acquisition?

[@stableandhappy]

Thank You 🙏❤

[@FightLegacy]

Minority? She's an indian in the medical field lol

[@Jack-tk1is]

She frm California, even Billionaires play victim there 😂😂

[@thinkingcitizen]

😂😂😂 as an Indian American, I can assure you there’s no dearth of victims out here

[@hl236]

And Lebron James is a 7 foot minority who broke ground to get into the NBA. Kidding a side, I applauded what she has achieved.

[@kirillcheckmarev6244]

Is it the most important outtake from the video lol?

[@teddysalas3590]

Can you do a video on how start a AI company?

[@manuelavilasb]

So inspiring! Thank you Surbhi for sharing your story :)

[@jonjeskie5234]

Its the Elizabeth Holmes who DIDN'T fail 👍

[@JBulsa]

That's dr. Rashmi

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Amazing story.

[@jyotivig3666]

Why did you sell out to Boston Consulting Surbhi ? Why didn't you compete in the product market with their products, maybe offer a better deal to consumers ?

[@louis3195]

❤Beautiful story. I'm also a founder, cancer survivor at 14

[@Mind_game7]

this is the best video on YC channel. Thank you!

[@AveryBlueRemix]

Inspiring stuff.

[@Scoobione]

Women are roots of this world. Everything amazing blossoms from women. And to call something lifesaving to women bikini medicine?! So disrespectful. This was a really great story. Thanks for sharing.

[@danstar5262]

Yoe're icredible, thanks for share it

[@ikennamichael9600]

So Inspiring to watch, because of this exact issue, starting a company in a particular field and investors want you see evidence of high experience in the field, they wont want to rely on your knowledge or experience of it and you plan to tackle it.

[@Anythingforfreedom]

This whole "brown woman" thing lol

[@Oscarnnanna]

Beautiful story

[@jeynergilcaga]

Amazing! Love your story Surbhi! Inspiring!!!!!🥳🥳🥳

[@bhoharegaming]

Its so inspiring story.

[@JBulsa]

Awesome vid. Thanks but more views if u cut the first 4 minutes and make in 2 shorts

[@IsaMutlib]

She's inspiring!

[@im_that_guy]

Why did she have to share what colour her skin is? No one cares. It doesn't matter

[@shivamkaushik7589]

To you maybe, many people do, they make decisions to invest or not the minute you enter the room, I have seen people leave Ubers when a women driver pulls up, just cause of the stereotypea surrounding around women driving badly, so ya

[@misskogepon]

Plenty of people do care and it does matter. Gender and race biases are well-known in the venture world in the US, so she is simply stating that obstacle she faced as a non-white female.

[@mjad7]

To be fair, there’s a ton of brown founders and CEO’s. If anything she’s actually at an advantage with all the new women and poc venture funds out there. She’s falsely attributing not being able to fundraise to her being a brown woman. When in reality over 99% of white men cant fundraise either with no sales.

[@depaindersinghxll-a4048]

its just like you listened to some mood lifting music ❤

[@larsbressers1402]

Respect!

[@velorent]

That is really inspiring!

[@StreamAgency]

Excellent story. nVision for the win!

[@krystlegoingplaces]

I LOVE THIS! I'm reading her book now and she's such an inspiration to me, a new founder ❤

[@TheMountainBeyondTheWoods]

"I'm a brown woman, I'm a woman of color..." "was it hard for me to fundraise because I was a brown woman without a higher degree or..." "investors saying womens health isn't a big enough market" Such BS, what a miserable person, you lost me, I don't care, goodbye.

[@rami8r]

so inspiring

[@rakshithareddy2489]

love her attitude

[@TheRealPhillipJacobs]

Investor: "Women's health isn't a big enough market" Haha hectic! Why don't we just nuke the earth, while we're busy neglecting the literal need for life 😂 We love the guts you had Surbhi!! It lays the foundation for many 🙏🏽 No pun intended on "guts" 🙏🏽