Chris Gibson
Management
Hi, everybody. I’m Chris Gibson, Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion, and I am really excited to welcome you to our first ever Learnings Call here at Recursion. So what is a learnings call and why are we starting this practice now? A traditional learnings call has a lot of value, but over the years I think these have become extraordinarily scripted, frankly quite boring in many cases and hard to access for all of the stakeholders that we want to be able to speak to. Learnings is our interpretation of a traditional earnings call, which we feel is more authentic, so I will not be scripted today, I’ll just be working off of the slides in front of me, adaptive and we hope easy to access. And please, if you have suggestions on how we can make this better going forward, please send them our way. What I would also say is that, we’ve chosen to initiate our first learnings call at this moment, at the start of 2024, because as we look ahead at the future of Recursion, the milestones and catalysts coming before us are going to be coming fast and furious, and we want to make sure that we have a robust mechanism to reach out to all of our stakeholders on a quarterly cadence, and to be able to share all the incredible work that we’re doing here at Recursion with you. So to frame where we are today, where we’ve been and where we’re going, I want to start by going back really a decade, going back to the origins of TechBio, one decade ago. And it was a really interesting time in the early 2010s. You saw technology companies coming into a wide variety of industries and leveraging a pretty straightforward playbook to bring…