Apoorva Mehta Says Bio and Pharma Moats Are AI Proof
Instacart founder comments on durable barriers in life sciences.
Apoorva Mehta founded Instacart and served as its CEO before stepping down after the company went public in 2023. In a post on X he stated that this is also what makes the moats in bio and pharma AI proof. The remark is presented as his direct quote in the packet with no further details on the referenced factors or any separate verification from other sources.
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MTS@MTSliveNewLimit CEO @jacobkimmel explains the clinical trial bottleneck AI can't fix: biology has irreducible latency "It's unlikely we're gonna see rapid expedition of clinical trials because a lot of the periods of time can't be expedited based on the biological primitives. In…
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AM Apoorva Mehta@apoorva_mehtathis is also what makes the moats in bio/pharma AI proof
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VP Vijay Pande@vijaypandeBio latencies are an issue. Folding@home had analogous latency issues and they’re hard to fix for sure, but massively parallel + pipelining can go a long way to hiding latencies. And AI is great for designing the plan.
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