Curative’s Fred Turner: “A million tests a week”
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Fred Turner, founder of Curative, to talk about creating a new coronavirus test (0:45), hiring 200 people in 7 weeks (2:25), what’s different about Curative’s test (4:00), how he got involved (7:30), who is backing him (10:15), starting with cows (12:50), then moving to STD’s (16:00), sepsis testing (22:10), coming from a tinkering family (23:40), getting rejected by the NHS (25:50), the bottlenecks (30:00), moving to California as a teenager (32:10), raising money in a pandemic (34:20), singing up the US Air Force (37:50), and how he tests his employees (38:15).
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