George Whitesides: “Raising $20 billion without selling anything is kind of…”

“I think that we're living in an amazing time, will, where these big dreams can be financed, and maybe there are maybe some limits to that. Raising $20 billion without selling anything is kind of challenging, but, you know, raising a billion is totally possible. And what a world that we live in. It means that we can finance these big dreams, whether it's through all these spacs or whether it's through private equity or even just big rounds, b rounds, whatever, there's tremendous capital out there.” (21:52–22:00)

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