Inside the World’s First De-Extinction Company | Ben Lamm on Dire Wolves & Colossal

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Description: In this Behind the Scenes episode, host visits Colossal Biosciences with co-founder and CEO Ben Lamm, a serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold five companies, to see how Colossal is building a de-extinction and species preservation pipeline. Lamm explains how the company develops synthetic biology technologies (open-sourced for conservation) while pursuing industrial and medical applications and supporting conservation through the $100M Colossal Foundation. He describes early investor skepticism, the challenge of aligning 260+ scientists across disciplines, and the milestone of producing dire wolf pups—Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi—using an end-to-end platform that started…