Six tales from the trenches of running a startup

Our company has built a platform to produce high-quality cells and tissues for regenerative medicine. That pursuit involves multiple disciplines, which means everyone here is an expert in a different language. Some of us are fluent in stem-cell biology, others in optical engineering, others in machine learning. When we started the company it wasn't possible to do biology and engineering under the same roof. When we finally moved into a shared space we were able to learn each other's lexicons, and we became more strongly aligned.