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At The Beginning Of Almost Every Industry, The Available Products And Services Are So Expensive To Own And Complicated To Use That Only People With A Lot Of Money And A Lot Of Skill Have Access To Them. A Disruptive Technology Is An Innovation That Simplifies The Product And Makes It So Affordable That A Whole New Population Of People Can Now Have One And Use It At The Beginning For Simple Applications, And Then It Improves To The Point That It Makes The Old Technology Obsolete.

In Most Instances, Biotechnology, Though A Radically Different Approach, Is A Sustaining Technology: It's A Dramatically Improved Way Of Targeting Problems That We Hadn't Been Able To Solve With The Conventional Approach Of Mainstream Pharmaceutical Companies.

Don't Worry About The Level Of Individual Prominence You Have Achieved; Worry About The Individuals You Have Helped Become Better People.

An Innovation Will Get Traction Only If It Helps People Get Something That They're Already Doing In Their Lives Done Better.

When I Have My Interview With My God, Our Conversation Will Focus On The Individuals Whose Self-esteem I Was Able To Strengthen, Whose Faith I Was Able To Reinforce, And Whose Discomfort I Was Able To Assuage—a Doer Of Good, Regardless Of What Assignment I Had. These Are The Metrics Of That Matter In Measuring My Life. This Realization, Which Occurred Nearly Fifteen Years Ago, Guided Me Every Day To Seek Opportunities To Help People In Ways Tailored To Their Individual Circumstances. My Happiness And My Sense Of Worth Has Been Immeasurably Improved As A Result.