No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Building the Platform for Scientific Breakthrough, with Noubar Afeyan of Moderna and Flagship Pioneering
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Feb 27, 2025 Noubar Afeyan, Co-founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering and a key figure behind Moderna, shares his insights on fostering scientific breakthroughs. He discusses the challenges of navigating regulatory terrain and the urgency of innovation in healthcare. Noubar explores the vital role of AI in medicine and reflects on lessons learned from pandemic responses. He introduces his innovative concept of polyintelligence, emphasizing collaboration between human, nature, and machine intelligence for future discoveries.
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Professionalizing Entrepreneurship
- Noubar Afeyan believes entrepreneurship should be a profession, not a game of chance.
- He emphasizes creating value and solving important problems, not just winning.
Early Entrepreneurship
- Noubar Afeyan, as a 24-year-old immigrant in 1987, started a company when it was uncommon.
- This experience shaped his view of entrepreneurship and led to Flagship Pioneering.
Emergent Innovation
- Flagship Pioneering fosters emergent innovation by creating environments for breakthroughs to arise naturally.
- This approach mimics nature's process of variation, selection, and iteration.