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Biology can be programmed like software. That's not a metaphor — it's literally what we do.
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Tom Knight wrote the foundational paper on synthetic biology at MIT. We're his commercial legacy.
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TSMC manufactures chips to spec. Ginkgo manufactures organisms to spec. Same model, different substrate.
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Every organism we engineer adds to our codebase. The platform gets better with every project.
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We went from $24 billion valuation to $1 billion. The science is real. The revenue timeline wasn't.
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We were the first biotech in Y Combinator. People thought we were insane. We raised $2.8 billion.