Listen "Safi Bahcall, scientist, inventor, founder, CEO, policy advisor and author of “Loonshots”"
Episode Synopsis
Amol Sarva (Knotel cofounder) takes In the Know to visit Safi Bahcall who studied physics at Princeton as a kid with Stephen Wolfram, started a cancer drug discovery company and took it public, advised the Obama White House on science policy, and now has a book for how teams should be organized to create innovation: Loonshots.
He has a lot to say on the incentives and structure of an organization and how that creates teamwork and innovation, or doesn't.
He has a lot to say on the incentives and structure of an organization and how that creates teamwork and innovation, or doesn't.
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