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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

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Vijay Pande, the founder of the AI-native venture firm VZVC, is discussing the evolution of biology from a discovery science into an engineering one. Per TechCrunch, Pande previously led a biotech practice at a sixteen z valued at roughly four billion dollars. He argues that open, shared datasets, rather than walled-off ones, are the key to allowing artificial intelligence to transform medicine.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/29/were-not-doing-30-bets-...

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