#868: Tim’s Founder Kitchen — From Brainstorm to The President’s Office in Two Months (Featuring Jake Becraft, Strand Therapeutics)
6/2/20262 hr 15 min
Jake Becraft is the CEO and co-founder of Strand Therapeutics, a company building one of the most advanced programmable genetic medicine platforms in biotechnology. Under his leadership, Strand is redefining what RNA medicines can do by enabling cell-selective targeting and therapeutic payload delivery inside the body, unlocking a new class of precision genetic therapies.
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First 90 secondsJake Becraft· Guest0:00
In genetic medicine, I would call it the holy grail for the last 30 years has been thinking about how do we administer intravenous, which means into the bloodstream, genetic medicines that can get to places throughout the body. We've been trapped in one organ for the past 30 years, and that's the liver. We are the first company that I'm aware of to show this extent of abscopal response in visceral deep organ metastases in a multitude of patients. And really right off the bat, what I want the world to understand is that we are standing right now on the precipice of a revolution in genetic medicine. We're going to be able to get to a point in the not too distant future where I think a lot of types of cancers are at the very least chronic diseases instead of death sentences.
Tim Ferriss· Host0:57
Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it's my job to deconstruct world-class performers. Has been my job for more than a decade. This episode's going to be an experimental format. It's going to be half interview, half live jam session, because many of the most fascinating conversations that I have, I cannot record. They're often involving startup founders, because for close to 20 years, I've been an angel investor. That started in 2008