The Biotech Startups Podcast · 2026-07-02 · 25 min
The Biotech Startups Podcast is powered by Excedr - helping life science startups accelerate R&D and commercialization with founder-friendly equipment leasing. Skip the upfront costs, stay lean, and focus on breakthrough science. As a TBSP listener, you can get exclusive perks through Excedr's partner network - special savings, promotions, and more. Explore these offers today: "Sales is really a numbers game. It's about how many you can fill at the top of the funnel and how many you can convert over time." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, host Jon Chee continues his conversation with Fengru Lin, CEO and co-founder of TurtleTree. Fengru shares how rigorous sales training at Salesforce and entrepreneurial autonomy at Google Cloud shaped her approach to customers, investors, and organizational change - then traces how a cheese-making hobby, poor dairy supply chains, and exposure to cell-based meat and seafood startups led to TurtleTree’s founding, early patents, and strategic pivot toward precision fermentation of high-value milk proteins.
🧬 Transforming Food Systems with Lactoferrin & Precision Fermentation | Fengru Lin Rerelease (3/3)72 / 100
🧬 AI in Biotech: When Sustainable Growth Replaces Hype | Mati Gill (4/4)60 / 100
🧬 Venture Studio Model: Building the Future of AI Drug Discovery | Mati Gill (3/4)78 / 100
🧬 From Law School to Teva: Learning a 45,000-Person Organization | Mati Gill (2/4)73 / 100
🧬 From Hong Kong Childhood to Global Sales: Connecting the Dots | Fengru Lin Rerelease (1/3)