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Part 4 of 4.
My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life sciences and manufacturing. Their Lab-as-Code technology allows you to quickly integrate and harmonize lab instruments and app data, automate analysis, visualize all your data in dashboards built over a powerful data lake, and ultimately speed up your operations to accelerate science or production.
Prior to founding Ganymede, Nathan was Product Manager for several of Benchling's data products, including the Insights BI tool and Machine Learning team. Before Benchling, Nathan worked at Affirm as a Senior Product Manager and was also a Trader at Goldman Sachs.
Join us this week and hear about:
- Nathan’s experience with data integration and automation in the life sciences and building a product for bioinformatics engineers and data scientists
- His experience building the technical team and creating a go-to-market motion
- His vision for Ganymede in the years to come
- The challenges biotech companies face managing and analyzing large amounts of data
- The importance of streamlining processes through automation and data integration
Nathan’s extensive background in machine learning and data systems across financial and lab technology and knowledge of their applications in the life sciences offers unique insights for founders to benefit from. Please enjoy my conversation with Nathan Clark.
Timestamps:
00:28 Intro
01:56 Empowering bioinformatics engineers with data integration and automation
04:38 The vision for Ganymede’s developer platform; automating wet lab data
06:39 The key to Ganymede’s quick growth: faster integrations
08:18 Nathan’s go-to-market motion at Ganymede; explaining your product
10:29 Which companies benefit the most from Ganymede?
14:23 Data strategies, modern data stacks, and building a data lake
20:21 Future vision for Ganymede; expanding platform features and reducing bugging cycles 27:02 Automating complex workflows to unlock the next level of R&D
29:40 Shout-outs and advice for 21-year old self
33:29 Outro
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