Bio Eats World: It’s Time to Build in Healthcare—COVID 19, Innovation, and What Comes Next – Andreessen Horowitz

In this episode of Bio Eats World, a16z creator and web pioneer Marc Andreessen and general partner Jorge Conde zoom out to talk about the large scale social results of the present pandemic on society, health care, biotech, and innovation. COVID-19 has actually been devastating– but also catalyzed huge change and a significant groundswell of development. Which of these changes will stay, and which may decline? What new developments and impacts might be still to come, and what are we learning that can be used towards the future?

Building on Marc Andreessen’s post and contact us to action, “It’s Time to Develop,” Jorge and Marc discuss what needs to be constructed in health care today (for instance, would a pandemic caution system assist us next time?); the effect of COVID-19 on innovation and state of minds in the biopharma industry; the shift towards determining output that could stimulate more innovation; and finally, what biopharma and endeavor capital share in terms of danger and experimentation that may serve as a much more comprehensive model.