2024-10-03
30 分钟Hello and welcome to the Entrepreneurs on Monocle Radio.
The show all about inspiring people, innovative companies, and fresh ideas in global business.
Today's show is all about dodos and diamonds.
First up, we'll meet the CEO of the world's first de extinction and species preservation company.
Our goal is 2028 for the mammoth.
We have not set a timeline for the dota externally, I should say, but what I will say is that it is highly likely we will see an animal before the mammoth.
Then we sit down with the founder of a jewelry house that's redefining the diamond classic.
Why are we all spending all this money to look exactly like the next person?
How can we recreate diamond jewelry?
This is the Entrepreneurs with me, Tom Edwards.
You're listening to the Entrepreneurs.
Ben Lamb is the CEO and co founder of Colossal, the world's first de extinction company.
With labs in Dallas, Boston and Melbourne, the company's focus is twofold.
Bringing back iconic species like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo, while also developing technologies that can help human healthcare and conservation.
Ben stopped by Midori House on the day he announced Colossal's new foundation, a $50 million venture, and to support a new documentary about the hunt for the world's oldest DNA.
Ben began by telling our Laura Kramer about the start of his journey.
My background is in building teams of much smarter women and men than me, and I just like to work on really cool problems that are systems problems.
So I like to build software systems, I built some space hardware systems, and I like to always continue to learn.
And I met this guy, George Church.
George is arguably the first father of synthetic biology.