🧬 Trust Over Control: Building Teams Like the Best Scientists | Roy Maute (Part 3/4)

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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 we set goals in the most aggressive realistic way that we can and everyone has visibility into our progress, it's all good—even if we fall a bit short, as long as it's for good reason." In this episode of The Biotech Startups Podcast, we dive into Roy Maute 's journey from academic scientist to biotech entrepreneur, exploring the founding and acquisition of Ab Initio Biotherapeutics and his subsequent roles at Forty Seven Inc. and Gilead Sciences. Roy reflects on the lasting influence of Irv Weissman's hands-off, trust-driven lab culture at Stanford and how it shaped his philosophy on building teams.