Colossal will continue seeding and spinning out new companies from scientific discoveries

Colossal will continue seeding and spinning out new companies from scientific discoveries | if we say oh we get a great discovery on plastics and we could spend some resources on it then we we invent that here and then we spin it out and we put incredible women and men to then go work on that

if we say oh we get a great discovery on plastics and we could spend some resources on it then we we invent that here and then we spin it out and we put incredible women and men to then go work on that

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