Kyle Harrison
to-read
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
- Author
- Sally Smith Hughes
- Published
- 2011
- Pages
- 223
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: How a venture capitalist and a university biochemist turned recombinant DNA into an industry — the founding document of biotech as a business.
Where I saw it: A reply to @WillManidis’s question on X, June 2, 2025 — “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/willmanidis/status/1929527399718269081
Titled in full because Genentech is already a company page in the wiki.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Genentech
- Biotech
- Technological Innovation