I sat down with Reed Jobs to discuss one of medicine’s hardest problems: why we’ve spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting cancer, yet still don’t have a cure.

Reed explains why there may never be a cure for cancer and why that’s actually the wrong goal. Instead, the future is making cancer a disease that no one dies from.

He gives an inside look at Yosemite, the venture firm he founded to rethink how to bring breakthrough therapies to patients. We go deep on how AI is reshaping biology, why Yosemite combines grants with venture capital to fund ambitious science, how to de-risk breakthrough research, and the extraordinary biology that makes our bodies work.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Early Cancer Mission

03:41 Working at a Cancer Lab as a Teen

05:16 Immunotherapy Breakthrough

07:05 Emerson Collective

09:20 Founding Yosemite

10:17 Making Cancer Nonlethal12:28 Using Grants to De-Risk Biotech Investing

15:33 Academic vs. CEO Role

19:11 Biology Is a Miracle22:52 Next-Decade Tooling

25:22 His Dream of In Vivo CAR-T Cell Therapy

28:51 Cracking Solid Tumors

29:27 Same-Day Cell Editing

33:46 The AI Era of Biology

37:00 Cutting Clinical Trial Costs

41:43 Highest-ROI Philanthropy

45:10 Taylor Francis

47:28 Yosemite’s Long-Term Impact

50:29 San Francisco Today#CancerResearch #Biotech #AI #Medicine #ReedJobs