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Vijay Pande
Vijay Pande is a Trinidadian-American scientist turned venture capitalist who convinced Marc Andreessen to make his first biotech bet. He spent 16 years as a Stanford professor pioneering computational biology, founded the Guinness World Record-holding Folding@home project that turned millions of home computers into a disease-fighting supercomputer, then built a16z's Bio+Health fund into a $3 billion+ powerhouse. Now he's co-founding VZ.VC to focus on AI-driven healthcare innovation - proof that you can go from writing video game code as a teenager to reshaping how Silicon Valley funds the future of medicine.
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