Here are the biggest business stories of the past week, ranging from the inside story on poop-testing startup uBiome, to highlights from our IGNITION:...
Hello! When the three founders of the"microbial-genomics" startup uBiome began collecting human poop, they kept it in an erstwhile storage closet, inside secondhand freezers from a discount-lab-supply website. It was a far cry from a state-of-the-art facility. So starts Erin Brodwin's inside story on uBiome, a startup that convinced Silicon Valley it was worth $600 million before the FBI came knocking.
Hello! When the three founders of the"microbial-genomics" startup uBiome began collecting human poop, they kept it in an erstwhile storage closet, inside secondhand freezers from a discount-lab-supply website. It was a far cry from a state-of-the-art facility. So starts Erin Brodwin's inside story on uBiome, a startup that convinced Silicon Valley it was worth $600 million before the FBI came knocking.
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