00:00I started working in cancer when my dad got sick and a lot of people are motivated by a family
00:04reason.
00:05You sat down with Reid Jobs for your term sheet podcast.
00:09For people who don't know him, give us a bit of a biography.
00:13He's made it his mission to make cancer non-lethal.
00:15The phrasing on that is very specific.
00:17Yeah, non-lethal because Jobs says that he doesn't think it's realistic to cure cancer.
00:22So what is he aiming for when it comes to treatment?
00:25So there are, I think, a couple of different outcomes.
00:26So he's sort of investing kind of across the stack, if you will, as they would say in tech.
00:31He's invested in all sorts of companies, including really early science companies to AI drug discovery companies.
00:38And the non-lethal distinction, I think, is really important.
00:41Anyone I talk to sort of says cancer is intractable.
00:44It's not like you're going to cure the flu, for example.
00:47But eventually we can get to the place where our ability to detect cancer improves wildly.
00:52Pancreatic cancer, for example, famously difficult to detect.
00:55So he's definitely invested in detection capabilities and also improving outcomes.
00:59This is somebody who could have chosen a lot of lives.
01:02And his father passing away from cancer that was undetectable for a long time clearly affected how he saw the
01:09world.
01:09And I think growing up in sort of the milieu of tech, I wonder if he took away the right
01:14lessons,
01:14where he sort of sat there and said, what if it doesn't have to be this way?
01:17What does it mean to invest towards that?
01:19I'll see you next time.
