Shopkick

So that's a pretty good model.

Um, ShopKick is, you know, started...

ShopKick, you guys familiar with ShopKick? It was started the same time as Foursquare.

It was kind of this like bootleg app that you, like, would check into places to get deals.

Um, you know, I think there are s- I think I read that they're on pace to do i- at least 100 million in revenue this year.

I'm your host, Ben Comer, chief editor at Life Science Leader, and today I'm speaking with Cyriac Roeding, a serial entrepreneur and investor in the fields of technology, AI, and science broadly.

He built CBS's mobile unit, and as entrepreneur in residence at Kleiner Perkins, he co-founded Shopkick, a shopping app sold to a Korean telecoms company for $250 million.

He's now CEO and co-founder at Early, a tech bio company that uses genetic constructs to turn cancer cells against themselves, which I'll get him to explain.

Uh, Cyriac is a, a keen observer of technological trends a- and startups, and predicted in 2016 that China would become Silicon Valley's biggest rival.