🧬 The Hidden Skills Scientists Need to Build Real Companies | Caitlyn Krebs (Part 2/4)

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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: . "If you are capable of acquiring knowledge, of applying the knowledge, and you like it, you can succeed. It doesn't matter what it is." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, Caitlyn Krebs , co-founder and CEO of Nalu Bio, traces her path from building the Bay Area's biotech ecosystem to operating at the cutting edge of science and business. She shares how launching BayBioNEST taught her what it really takes—beyond great science—to build durable companies, before diving into her time at Entelos, where she helped pioneer virtual patients and digital twins nearly twenty years before AI became a buzzword, and unpacks what BD actually means in biotech, from navigating black-box skepticism to running "bake-off" pilots that let the data speak for itself.