Ben Lamm (on de-extinction)
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
- Published
- September 23, 2026
- Duration
- 2h 3m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Sep 23, 2026
Discusses Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, serial technology entrepreneur, and pioneer in…
Summary
Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, serial technology entrepreneur, and pioneer in de-extinction. Ben joins Armchair Expert to discuss being raised by his mom and grandparents in Texas, starting his first company while at Baylor, and why a conversation with geneticist George Church changed the course of his life. Ben and Dax talk about b…
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Ben Lamm, co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, serial technology entrepreneur, and pioneer in de-extinction. Ben joins Armchair Expert to discuss being raised by his mom and grandparents in Texas, starting his first company while at Baylor, and why a conversation with geneticist George Church changed the course of his life. Ben and Dax talk about building a team to engineer a mammoth from scratch, creating woolly mice in 30 days, and turning 73,000-year-old DNA into dire wolf puppies. Ben