Starting a Biotech Startup at 24 - TOO YOUNG?
Published 2023-07-27
As soon as I embarked on this journey, I knew it would be an unusual route for someone my age. But has it had a positive or a rather negative effect on our journey?
In this video, I want to share my experience as a 25-year-old biotech startup founder. Mind you, I'm sharing my thoughts based on the experience I've had so far, considering it's ONLY the beginning. This is just my very humble opinion, and that might change as we grow the company.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
00:00 I knew I wanted to be a startup founder
01:29 The event where everything started
02:53 Figuring out what to do next
05:12 Advantages and disadvantages
05:40 Disadvange 1: Not being taken seriously
07:43 Disadvantage 2: People thinking you're part of the staff
08:24 Disadvantage 3: You lack experience and connections
09:54 Advantage 1: You can leverage your lack of experience
11:36 Advantage 2: You can take more risks
13:17 Advantage 3: Empathy
14:57 Conclusion
Stay tuned with what's going on at our startup here: www.linkedin.com/company/oncoswabco
All Comments (8)
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I've been following your carreer for 25 years now đ€©đ€Șđ§ and I keep getting prouder. You have truly become an incredible biotech startup founder đ„, and I admire your determination and passion. Good luck! may your dreams come true, and always keep up the hard work and great spirits. I love you, Dad
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Thank you so much for your insights. I am taking the same step and I could totally relate.
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This looks soo incredibly exciting! Iâm going into my first year of medicine, but I recently discovered an interest in biotech startups. Iâm honestly not quite sure if medicine is the best career path to go into the biotech industry (most people in the industry studied biochem or some type of engineering), but I was wondering if you think itâs possible to run a startup while still studying.
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In the Building watching from Baltimore MD đ
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I am not really in the entrepreneurial space but I believe as long as you have a good product and the right marketing strategy you will succeed. Also, I believe regardless of what you do being young (overall) presents more advantages than disadvantages.
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You are in good company! Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started Facebook, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar was 23, Michael Dell of Dell computers was 21, Elon Musk was 24 yrs old, Bill Gates was 16, Jerry Yang of Yahoo was 25, Jack Dorsey started Twitter at 23... So no need to defend your age of 24 when starting such an exciting company - don't women learn faster than men in school? ;-)
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Its so interesting to hear about your experience with this, thank you for sharing and for doing something so important that could really make the world better for so many people đ„Čđđ
