When you're starting a company, you might have more of your time available than money and resources. But then whent you get funded, you have to be cutthroat about this an radically delegate stuff. This is why operational excellence can be such a catalist for your company. When you hire somebody who is grad at operations, they typically do 20 per cent of the organization's work. And then that enables my senior people to go something else with their time with their time....
Jason opens with a Founder University segment on "Startup Math" (1:48), then interviews Zymergen CEO Josh Hoffman on Biofacturing (16:45), how DNA sequencing & machine learning are enabling materials science advancements (26:35), what human capital is needed for the industry (42:53) & more. Pod Notes: http://bit.ly/1231notes