At some point in their careers, most innovative founders talk about their lightbulb moments—breakthrough discoveries in the lab; buried results from a data report you've reviewed dozens of times already; the clarity when a product problem translates to market opportunity.
For me, it wasn't a lightbulb - it was when I combined my two passions of molecular biology and computer science to make plants glow.
When I was at university, one of my first projects was to genetically modify plants to express genes capable of enabling bioluminescence. For a budding molecular biologist, this was a catalytic moment, a scientific project that demonstrated how truly remarkable plants are, and an attempt to push the boundaries on what is possible in the synthetic and plant biology spaces.
