Molly Lindquist, Founder of Consano - "Crowdfunding Medical Research"

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At age 32 Molly Lindquist was diagnosed with breast cancer. Other women in her family had also endured this terrible ordeal. She survived it and is fighting back. Consano, the crowdfunding platform she founded, funds more than 65 medical research projects at leading academic centers such as Dana-Farber and Memorial/Sloan Kettering. Her work is getting serious attention because she’s figured out how to help disease survivors channel their energies towards defeating the illnesses that beset them. I had the opportunity of interviewing this energetic and engaging founder at TEDMED.

Here are some of the topics covered in this brief conversation:

• Sal’s Pitch for his Investment Syndicate
• Molly Lindquist Bio
• Molly Lindquist Is Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, as Both Her Grandmothers Had Been
• Molly Lindquist Tells Consano’s Founding Story
• “I mean, over 50% of their time [researcher’s time] is spent fundraising. I'm naively thinking, shouldn't you be in the lab coming up with treatments. We need some cures here.”
• Molly Lindquist Explains How Consano Works
• “But people have now been calling this [Consano], this Kickstarter / Match.com hybrid. I was like, did not see the Match.com coming.”
• “So, our biggest differentiator from many of the other crowdfunding platforms is that we vet each project.”
• “We've listed about 65 projects from 25 academic centers from West Coast, East Coast, Dana-Farber, Sloan Kettering…”
• “I think the biggest piece of advice I usually give when people ask me is really, be ready to jump on to an emotional roller coaster.”
• Molly Lindquist on Work/Life Balance
• “I think you know my whole premise now is leaving this world, as we all will at some point, having left a mark and having made it a better place.”