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" It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition. "

Karl Iagnemma

Research

Support

Vision

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DNA

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World

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Question

People

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Karl Iagnemma

Will

Perspective

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Track

People

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Karl Iagnemma

Friend

Uniformity

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