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Wesley Chan

Wesley Chan

American venture capitalist

Jul 31, 2026

2:01
And I wonder, a- as a result of that experience, what did you learn, uh, about making products that stick with users now, that I'm sure you're now, uh, leveraging as you contemplate the same for, for, uh, the, the companies you're investing in?
2:16
Yeah, you know, I think Google was a fascinating place because, uh, the, uh, nobody thought it would work.
2:22
You know, it's the, the, the, the history has proven otherwise, but back then we were all sitting there going, "Well, there's a dot-com crash going on." Uh, everybody is getting laid off left and right.
2:30
I still remember going through six roommates in a year because everybody's working for a different dot-com, and a U-Haul truck would come pull up and they're like, "Yeah, I'm sorry, I have to, like, kinda, like, back out of my lease.
2:39
Uh, you're [stutters] sorry." And they'd pull up their, um, U-Haul, and they'd move all their stuff back to Ohio, and they go live with their parents 'cause their, like, company imploded, right? I, I had plenty of friends that got screwed by, by having worthless stock options.
2:52
Not only were they worthless, they had, like, exercised them early but didn't pay the tax on them, and then they had a huge tax bill due on worthless options because there was a massive v- valuation, uh, increase that they got.
3:03
And so I was watching all this wreckage sort of happen.

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8:42
Talk a bit about the, the genesis of that, given the newness of the idea.
43:32
Okay
43:32
... that's a drug discovery and development company, and they focus on development.
43:36
It's the only company we know of that's using AI to predict clinical trial results.
43:41
They pick drugs out, they buy drugs, and they figured out using AI that a knee drug that will regrow cartilage in your knee to prevent knee replacements will make it through clinical trial.
43:50
And so they're taking it through right now.
43:52
It literally does regrow cartilage in your knees, and it's gonna prevent knee replacements.
43:55
And think about this, like friends that are skiers, friends that are runners can get rid of having that pesky knee problem when the cartilage goes, and AI found this drug, and they're helping it predict through clinical trials.
44:24
Just track the journey.

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