Thanks to this, he has already raised $75 million. His investors include personalities such as businesswoman Paris Hilton, Thomas Tull (the owner of the company that created the Jurassic Park franchise) and the Winklevoss twins (Facebook’s original investors). And he is more than just talk: Colossal, the firm he founded and directs to pursue this goal, has become the first large company in this new sector on a global level. So why drop everything to pursue a dream that to some may seem straight out of science fiction?įrom his home in California, Lamm explains by video call that what drives him the most is the idea of being able to restore ecosystems, discovering new technologies in the process. Lamm, born in Austin, Texas, describes himself as a serial entrepreneur: just in the last decade, he has founded at least four successful technology startups. Ben Lamm is the commercial face of de-extinction, a process that seeks to bring animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo bird back to life.
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