GinkgoAnnaMarie

There are examples of biologically generated hydrogen and methane - those are well established pathways... All you really need is to accumulate enough of that and having some ignition process (maybe teeth with flintlike properties) - could easily imagine that could be developed

We care super deeply about ethics and values and spend a lot of time thinking about how biotechnology will impact the world, how science has gotten it wrong in the past (e.g. by excluding certain groups, etc.). Always happy to chat about more specifics, but you can also see some of our thoughts on topics at the intersection of society, ethics, and science in our magazine: Grow by Ginkgo (https://www.growbyginkgo.com/)

Bottom line: we CARE how our platform is used (we don't just see it as "pipes" and don't care what runs through those pipes) and feel responsible for making sure it's used for good.

More people should care!!! A LOT!!!

I get why people want "stats" - but they're really hard because quality isn't typically included in those stats (e.g. "we have lots of proprietary gene sequences" - well that only matters if your sequences are useful for anything). We have all those stats (e.g. ~450M proprietary gene sequences, etc.), but what really matters is "are customers willing to TRUST US with their most important programs?". So the fact that we have worked on 73 major programs (through 2020) on behalf of our customers is what really matters to us. It's one thing to eat your own cooking, it's another thing to open a restaurant and get people to pay you to cook for them.

We're also pretty proud of our Foundry stats and Knight's Law: check out page 25 here: https://www.ginkgobioworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ginkgo-Bioworks-Investor-Presentation-May-2021.pdf - all that work makes lots of new codebase for us, it's pretty awesome!

1. When people talk about this, they're really talking about industrial biotech - things like chemicals, food ingredients, animal free proteins, etc... You have to really work on it - we have a deployment and fermentation team at Ginkgo whose job it is to make small scale models of how a fermenter works (ambr250s, we have a ton of these things) - we use those to try different conditions; then deployment team works with a customer to scale up to production scale - we've done that. We've taken whole new processes and scaled to 80K liter fermenters; with Cronos we helped them find a fermentation facility, we helped them get the production runs going (and they just announced they've done first production runs). But it's also a cell engineering challenge - you need to write the right "code" AND you need to create the right fermentation "recipe."