psychedelics
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Sam Clark
Sam Clark, MD, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Terran Biosciences, a CNS-focused platform biotech he started in 2017 from his medical school dorm room with $10,000. A neuroscientist trained at MIT and Columbia, Clark has built one of the largest psychedelic development programs in the industry, is the named inventor on more than 200 patent applications, and holds the world's first patents for new forms of psilocybin and MDMA. Terran pairs a medicinal-chemistry drug design engine with an FDA-cleared neuroimaging software platform and a pipeline of late-stage assets licensed from Sanofi and Pierre Fabre.
Andrew Chadeayne
Andrew Chadeayne is the founder and CEO of CaaMTech, an Issaquah, Washington psychedelic pharmaceutical company building safer, patentable psychedelic-inspired medicines. A chemist (PhD, Cornell) and patent attorney (JD, George Washington) who began his career proving sugar is addictive through opioid pathways, he has filed more than 100 patent applications mapping the chemistry of psilocybin, tryptamines and other psychedelics. His strategy is to expand 'the universe of available compounds' rather than bet on a single molecule, giving researchers a toolbox of characterized psychedelics for mental health treatment.
Jeffrey Finkle
Jeffrey Finkle is the CEO of The Arcview Group, the vertically integrated firm that has bankrolled and brokered the legal cannabis, hemp, and psychedelics industries for over a decade. A software entrepreneur turned venture investor since 1999, he co-founded the $115M Odeon Capital Partners during the dot-com peak, spent years as a fixture of New York's angel scene, and now runs Arcview's events, capital, ventures, consulting, and research arms with social equity written into the charter.
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan is an American stand-up comedian, podcast host, and UFC color commentator whose Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) has become the world's most-listened-to podcast. Launched in 2009 and exclusive to Spotify from 2020 under a $200M deal, then renewed in 2024 for an estimated $250M, JRE has crossed 2,400 episodes and 6+ billion YouTube views. A former sitcom actor (NewsRadio), Fear Factor host, and taekwondo champion, Rogan has built a media empire from Austin, Texas, including the Comedy Mothership club, that makes him arguably the most influential solo voice in American culture.
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is a five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast (1 billion+ downloads), early-stage investor in Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, and 50+ companies, and founder of the Saisei Foundation funding psychedelic research. Known for popularizing 'lifestyle design' with The 4-Hour Workweek, he is also a Guinness World Record holder in tango, a national kickboxing champion, and a polyglot who speaks five languages.