Is climate change opening the floodgates of the germ zoo? Are Silicon Valley investors understanding and accepting climate change? In this episode, Zeeshan chats with Arvind Gupta and Po Bronson about their book, Decoding The World, where they try and decode the real cause of the pandemic, climate change, iGEM and SynBio & Silicon Valley!

Arvind is the founder and a venture advisor at IndieBio, which is the world’s first and leading accelerator dedicated to startups in biology to solve the world’s problems. As founder, Arvind has redefined the possibilities of early stage biotech, investing in over 136 companies over five years and growing the IndieBio portfolio into billions of dollars in value. His current role is at the global VC firm, Mayfield,  where he co-leads the engineering biology practice whose mission is to invest in science based companies that could change history. Po Bronson was a finance and tech journalist covering Silicon Valley for Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and an op-ed contributor for The Wall Street Journal. His science journalism has been honored with nine national awards, and he is the author of seven bestselling books that are available in 28 languages worldwide. Po is currently the Managing Director of IndieBio and General Partner at SOSV, the venture firm that backs IndieBio.