Venture Best Spotlight Season Three Episode Three

What if the long-extinct Woolly Mammoth could walk the Earth again?

In this episode of The Venture Best® Spotlight, Aaron Barker, Head of Venture Best®, sits down with Ben Lamm, Co-Founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, to discuss the company’s mission to bring back extinct species and use its technology to help protect critically endangered ones. Their conversation explores the science behind de-extinction, the origins of Colossal Biosciences, and how curiosity and an ambitious vision helped turn the idea of bringing back the Woolly Mammoth into a groundbreaking biotechnology company.

They also discuss Ben Lamm’s entrepreneurial journey, the role investors and legal counsel play in building an innovative company, and some of the technologies Colossal Biosciences is developing beyond de-extinction, including artificial gestation and applications of AI and genetic engineering.