Elan: In the material world, their the trick is getting people to want to try it. He says incumbents are not actually interested in adopting new technology anywhere near as quickly as an innovator can deploy it. Elan: I mean, there is no reason why sales force should have been the dominant kind of sass like oracle was well set up to do that. And yet, bit of an inventor's dilemma....
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