🧬 Nathan Clark - Ganymede - Part 2 | Moving from Goldman Sachs to Fintech | Exploring Product Management at Affirm | Leveraging Data & Building Tech Solutions| Impacting Scientific Progress at Benchling

Part 2 of 4.

My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life sciences and manufacturing. Their Lab-as-Code technology allows you to quickly integrate and harmonize lab instruments and app data, automate analysis, visualize all your data in dashboards built over a powerful data lake, and ultimately speed up your operations to accelerate science or production.

Prior to founding Ganymede, Nathan was Product Manager for several of Benchling's data products, including the Insights BI tool and Machine Learning team. Before Benchling, Nathan worked at Affirm as a Senior Product Manager and was also a Trader at Goldman Sachs.

Join us this week and hear about:

Nathan’s move from Goldman Sachs to a Product Management role at Affirm
His experience managing several data products at Benchling
The importance of understanding user needs, aligning product development with real-world problems, and accelerating scientific progress by addressing the challenges researchers face today.

Nathan’s extensive background in machine learning and data systems across financial and lab technology and knowledge of their applications in the life sciences offers unique insights for founders to benefit from. Please enjoy my conversation with Nathan Clark.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro: Recap & Episode Overview

01:51 Nathan's realization at Goldman Sachs; transitioning to Affirm

04:05 Discussion on securitization and capital markets

06:28 Differences between Fintech and Wall Street

10:31 Nathan’s introduction to product management and data infrastructure

14:18 Understanding user needs; aligning product development with real-world problems

18:14 Nathan’s decision to leave Affirm

19:35 Frustration with scientific progress; wanting to help accelerate Biology research

24:28 Joining Benchling: new responsibilities and experiences

26:33 Outro

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