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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

When he realized that the technology the company had built could potentially be used to test for COVID-19, he jumped in feet first. At the beginning of this year, Fred Turner was building a biotech company in the Bay Area to work on sepsis detection. In one weekend, his assumption was proved correct. I am Eric Ries.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent.