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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. And often what we're seeing in these hydroxychloroquine studies is a big ratcheting of a typical dose. You ratchet up a drug that has known side effects.

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Thoughts on WeWork

This is going to be BIG.

Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. Sometimes they have various ratchets and other bells and whistles that protect their downside further, like when Square IPO’d. One thing is for sure—there does seem to be a lot of hair on this deal.

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