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This post doesn't address the elephant in the room -- wages in biology seem to be supressed due to an oversupply of life sciences scientists willing to do tasks in various corporate and academic labs.

Since life science wages (rewards) seem to be so low compared to other careers in relation to the density of advanced degree holders, the ambitions need to be that much bigger to make it worth it to found uncertain and risky startups. Only big ideas would be worth funding. Ecosystem tooling startups might be founded once more capital for that category trickles in.

>>And I have no doubt that Patrick Collinson — the CEO of Stripe [...]

Patrick's last name is Collison, not Collinson, as per the wikipedia link that the blog post references.

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Fixed!