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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
TechCrunchSaturday, August 29, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he…
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- Technology shifts change how people work, communicate, and build — often faster than policy can follow. Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he… Secondary effects may show up in markets and supply chains linked to Vijay Pande and Technology.
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Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he…
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Technology shifts change how people work, communicate, and build — often faster than policy can follow.
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