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Patrick Malone

Patrick Malone

Physician-scientist turned venture investor; Partner at KdT Ventures, backing early-stage life science and biotech founders, and writer of the Decoding Bio newsletter.

Sep 17, 2026

10:36
Walk us through what saying as little as possible actually means in the context of a biotech.
10:41
Yeah.
10:41
So five years ago, uh, when we say we led a seed round, uh, we would probably either announce that round with some, you know, maybe some specifics or kind of high level points of like what, what, you know, what disease area we're going after.
10:53
We may wait until the series a to announce right before that really with the goal to drive, uh, both partnering interest, fundraising interest, you know, recruiting.
11:01
We don't even do that now.
11:02
I mean, now we basically try to fundraise through every possible gate without ever saying anything about what the company does.
11:08
because we have to.

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24:07
last words.

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