Founder who skipped Baker Lab to build a startup salutes RFD4-Proteina
AllThingsApx · x · 2026-10-21
Scinetics founder Erik Xu congratulated the Baker Lab and NVIDIA GenAIR teams on RFD4-Proteina, revealing he deferred joining Baker this year to build his startup. He describes bittersweet feelings watching protein design move unbelievably fast without him, but mostly admiration for the field's momentum.
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