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Nice! This is really cool. Well done.

Very cool... nice work.

Your germ line genome rarely changes. Your exome changes all the time. Your gut biome changes all the time. There's massive market opportunity but a ton of regulations around how t…

1) You have your own selection bias as we all do. I'm not ignorant to that. However, many of the folks that have gone through similar transformations don't come from "easy" backgro…

Alright, I'll bite. This is such a victimhood mentality and a ridiculous statement. I wasn't wealthy when I started investing. Hell, the first dollar I put into my long term portfo…

This. The only current driver of cost reduction in genome sequencing at the moment is subsidization.

My only hope is that we can extend this to biotech as well. The amount of IP theft and insane Chinese government subsidization of biotech that USA-based companies live off of is di…

Modular housing that grows with your life. Biggest problem there is effective expansion joints that would hold the houses together. Affordable container ship that is electric. A pe…

The ones I'm most familiar with are: Acxiom, Datalogix, DataSift, Equifax, Full Contact, and Experian. There's always Twitter as well but they are mostly abstracted data and you ca…

What sucks is that I get the reason why the researchers don't care or gloss over it. It's why I initially got into the space: there's something magical about working on massive dat…

Yep! I was shocked when I got the data packet. I had no idea that I could get that much data on individuals. Some other notes about the data: you can get additional hydrations 2-4x…

The White House also evaluated personalization technology to use on whitehouse.gov so that they could serve particular "stats" during major events (election season, SOTU, etc.).

I took up issue with "Great Hack" as well. At some of my previous companies, we evaluated purchasing data from a lot of these vendors for a data hydration purposes, Cambridge Analy…

I was going to use a throwaway but f-it. You, sir, are literally 100% correct. My day job is working for a company that competes with Jira. There is a huge trend in the enterprise …

This is our biggest gripe with the service. We have a lot of consumers that ask us to perform gene sequencing for them expecting to get something similar to 23andMe. It's always a …

Echo this. We have collateral, revenue, decent profit margins, and significant YOY growth (over 500%) and it's been difficult to get a loan or LOC due to how young we are. We final…

That's a good point and appreciate the critical feedback. This is the debate we've been having is that we don't want to get close to the "diagnostic" or "insights" world due to reg…

It would likely be very similar to our existing service. We send a swab kit, you send back, we group it with other consumers, sequence, then send data back through some encrypted w…

Hi HN, There was a thread yesterday[0] around the inaccuracy of DNA tests from likes Ancestry & 23andMe that was intriguing and I'm hoping to get opinions on the subject. I'm a co-…

Have no idea if you've looked at these folks but I hear great things about https://www.flexport.com/ May be worth your time in reaching out.

Run a genome sequencing facility. Here's what we're looking to do or what is top of mind for us in 2019: Sign a couple of departments that we do a lot of business with onto a seque…

Couple things: 1) We're services/project oriented. So for each $1 we spend, we receive ~$20 back on revenue. That unfortunately doesn't compound and isn't recurring in the normal S…

We switched from Mailchimp to Sendgrid; not hard to switch back. We were hoping to get to a more robust tool but can make do with the basics for now. Also, I wouldn't value my time…

Seems excessive on the surface but over the course of a year, that's $60. Still pedantic? Sure, but $60 in adspend for us generates $1200 in revenue. As a bootstrapped company, eve…

We signed up with them 2 months ago. As a small but rapidly growing company, we have to keep a close eye on our costs. We'll be cancelling our service with them today because of th…