CFI Podcast

CFI Podcast: Shifting Risk Mindsets, From Tech to Bio

Jorge Conde, Vijay Pande, and Jeffrey Low

Posted May 10, 2018

What challenges do first-time founders or tech founders encounter when building companies in the bio space, and how do they differ from traditional tech companies? In this hallway-style conversation episode of the CFI Podcast (originally recorded as a video), CFI bio team general partners Vijay Pande and Jorge Conde, with Jeff Low discuss the mindset shifts involved in building bio (particularly therapeutics) companies. They cover everything from different paths to market and different partnerships (including pharma) to different timelines and milestones for validating the product and business itself. But how do we get to a common language that bridges the worlds of tech and bio?