Sergio Xalambrí
Sergio Xalambrí
Description: Longevity and startups
Posts Me Wisdom Sign in Subscribe Latest issue Aug 4, 2023 The history of longevity biotech What we've learned from more than 30 years of a story that has repeated itself time and again
Nine years ago I got interested in longevity as a result of an existential search for meaning. The only way to have an impact back then was to join an academic laboratory and at the time that wasn't an option for me. So I took a different path: technology. But I did keep longevity as my life's purpose. My fiancée loves to remind me how I couldn't stop talking about it in our first date. Lame, I know.
So at the beginning of 2023 I finally left my job as CTO because I wanted to start working on what I truly think is important. I've been developing products and growing teams in startups for over a decade so my first instinct was to start a longevity biotech startup (or join one that is aligned with my principles). So I reached out to hundreds of experts (founders, investors, and scientists) to understand the differences with starting software (or hardware) startups.
Sergio Xalambrí
Sergio Xalambrí