Kyle Harrison
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Author
Sally Smith Hughes
Published
2011
Pages
223
Recommended
Once
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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 heard about it

  • @WillManidis’s thread — a reply to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in the thread, June 2025.

Connections

  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Genentech
  • Biotech
  • Technological Innovation