How to Build a Billion-Dollar Company (And Keep An Academic Day Job)

Anyone compiling a list of the most successful life sciences entrepreneurs of the past decade would have to consider a soft-spoken academic named David Walt. He’s the chemistry professor at Medford, MA-based Tufts University who co-founded Illumina in 1998.

Luke Timmerman

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