Gairik Sachdeva
gairik.bsky.social
Gairik Sachdeva
@gairik.bsky.social
A bioengineer who believes in an abundant future. Follow my writing on innovation at: https://gairiksachdeva.substack.com/

Biotech business development at Skyhook. Previously at Arbor Bio, Abata Tx, Silver Lab.

All views here and on Substack are my own.
Harnessing Noise Like a Diligent, Discerning Demon

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June 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"When RFK Jr. looks at the FDA’s recommendations and alleges corruption, he is making the very mistake the agency aims to avoid: selectively cherry-picking outliers and anecdotes, without weighing the entirety of evidence in the balance."

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March 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Perhaps a biotech hot take: "A vanishingly small number of companies founded in the last 20 years have access to the path that led Genentech and Moderna to the growth they achieved."

Full piece here: gairiksachdeva.substack.com/p/modernas-n...

Do you agree? What else may be going on?
December 17, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Yes, QWERTY is Awkward, so Why Can’t We Make it Better?

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December 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Barbara Blackburn, a holder of the Guinness World Record for typing speed, was not amused by David Letterman...
When her fingers were done speeding across the typewriter, Letterman held the sheet of paper to the camera: it was gibberish. “Something has happened,”

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November 29, 2024 at 4:36 PM
“Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline”
November 16, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Obama says the ACA was intended to be a "starter home.” Evolutionary bio shows us the choices that policymakers have next. Allow renovations and experimentation. Or they could throttle change ... as with the dodo, risking revolutionary extinction.
My post: gairiksachdeva.substack.com/p/how-would-...
November 14, 2024 at 10:06 PM
How did the world's largest video games maker and, in Steven Spielberg's words, a "certifiable genius," end up disappointing thousands of kids on Christmas Day in 1982? Read the piece on my new Substack to find out!

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November 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM