Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital) – Seeking the Full Potential of Education [ETL Looks Back]
Jennifer Carolan discusses blending the venture model with education, and following teachers’ leads in the EdTech revolution
Midway through a M.D./Ph.D program at UCLA, Alice Zhang made a discovery that she felt could reverberate far beyond the halls of academia. So she shifted directions, leaving her Ph.D program to found Verge Genomics, a biomedical firm that aims to unite genetic research and artificial intelligence in service of drug discovery. She describes how AI can revolutionize the drug discovery process, and reframes risk-taking as a simple series of optimistic next steps.