Narges Baniasadi came to Stanford from Iran, earned her PhD there and built Bina Technologies, a genomics software company Roche acquired. She now leads Emergence at Stanford, backing founders who build for the social drivers of health.
Takeaways from SecondPod conversations, plus essays on AI, private markets and the people building what comes next. Written by Ardalan Javadi.

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