SCOUT· 50%2h 03m·2026-09-23·InterviewsBen Lamm (on de-extinction)
Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, serial technology entrepreneur, and pioneer in de-extinction. Ben joins Armchair Expert to discuss being raised by his mom and grandparents in Texas, starting his first company while at Baylor, and why a conversation with geneticist George Church changed the course…
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“The amount of sim moments i get with this podcast WTF, I'm on a bus to uni about to take a test on de-extinction and rewilding studing the examples from this same dude!!”
“Messing with nature has never, ever worked out well. Why, if they’re determined to do it, are none of these rich idiots working on bringing back nature that has been made recently, unnaturally extinct through our destruction of their enviro…”
“such an interesting episode! loved it! would love to see an episode about IVF(process, moral dilemmas, how it has developed over the years), i find it all so fascinating!”
“Super interesting stuff. However, it makes me sad that celebrities and governments are so willing to invest in this type of research... meanwhile my 4 year old is actively going blind due to a rare genetic retina condition. Researchers know…”
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