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401:, he recognized the commercial potential of technology that existed at Brown University, negotiated a license, organized the financing and founded the company. It's now a very significant company, with 70% market share in genome-sequencing machines. He's done this with many other companies, often serving as the initial CEO. I think that's notable, and there is no lack of sources about it, notably the book mentioned by
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Last year, though, Bock flew the biotech coop. A consolidation in the industry had made it too hard to sell products to the big pharmaceutical companies, he said. Instead, he has incubated a Palo Alto start-up, Nanosys, which plays in the emerging field of
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