Steve Jobs' Son Reed Runs Yosemite VC: $1B+ Focused on Cancer, Including AI Drug Discovery
MattGarciaEth · x · 2026-08-14
The post quotes a story about Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs: at 12 his father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, by 15 he interned at a Stanford oncology lab, after his father's death he started investing in cancer research and biotech, eventually founding VC firm Yosemite, managing $1B+ and backing 25 cancer companies, including AI drug discovery, gene editing, cancer vaccines. The author comments on wrong dad-money allocation order, but Reed's story is a poetic full-circle in Silicon Valley.
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