
What kind of biotech startup wins a $3B syndicate, woos a gallery of marquee scientists and recruits GSK's Hal Barron as CEO in a stunner? Let Rick Klausner explain
It started with a question about a lifetime’s dream on a walk with tech investor Yuri Milner.
At the beginning of the great pandemic, former NCI chief and inveterate biotech entrepreneur Rick Klausner and the Facebook billionaire would traipse Los Altos Hills in Silicon Valley Saturday mornings and talk about ideas.
Milner’s question on one of those mornings on foot: “What do you want to do?”
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