Before Sunny Jain founded Sun Genomics, he washed laboratory dishes, managed teams and learned to make complicated work repeatable. His Floré years show how much of building a company happens between the experiment and the invoice.

After labs, startups, a 110-person company and a hard shutdown, the molecular scientist returned to Joliet to rebuild Flore. His career is a study in what happens when open-science idealism meets operating reality.