Johannes Fruehauf, BioLabs | Reinventing Incubators For Bio Startups | E05

We’re back live and in Paris 🇫🇷 with our next guest, Johannes Fruehauf. We talk about reinventing the co-working labs for biotech startups, the difficulties of doing business in Europe, profitability in biotech, and much more (see timestamps below).

💎 ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Johannes is the President, CEO, and founder of BioLabs, the biggest “incubator”, or as they like to call it “co-working laboratory”, platform for biotech startups in the world. Today they have over 14 locations, including 3 in Europe (2 in Paris and 1 in Heidelberg). He is also the founder of LabCentral and a general partner at Mission BioCapital. 

📜 TRANSCRIPT
Read the full transcript here: https://tinyurl.com/mt9dva8u

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
[00:00:00] Intro
[00:00:39] Welcome to this new episode
[00:02:19] How & why reinvent biotech incubators
[00:14:14] The competitors
[00:17:41] Entrepreneurship in Europe
[00:22:11] The Challenges of doing business in Europe
[00:29:37] People make it happen
[00:36:51] BioLabs in Asia and Japan
[00:41:46] Is a higher risk tolerance a good thing for everyone?
[00:48:22] Money: being profitable in life sciences and not raising money if you don't have to.
[00:59:15] Synergies between real estate and investing
[01:14:01] Should you get a business coach?
[01:25:52] Thanks for listening