Bio

7x New York Times bestsellers. 9 national awards for science journalism. Cited in 185 academic journals and 503 books. Most recent is ''Decoding the World, a Roadmap for the Questioner,'' co-authored with Arvind Gupta, published in October 2020. As an General Partner at SOSV: first investor in early-stage companies such as Prolific Machines, Ozone Bio, Avalo.ai, Vertical Oceans, California Cultured, Sundial Foods, Canaery, OncoPrecision, Aja Labs, and others. Additionally, investor in mid-stage companies such as Chronus Health, Gatehouse Bio, Mycoworks, Lingrove, Voyage Foods, Endless West, Zymochem, Beeflow, Stamm, Catalog DNA, New Culture, Finless Foods, NotCo, and Clara Foods.