A museum of the present.
The people generating positive impact in biotech.
42 stories of people generating positive impact across the biotech ecosystem — industry, startups, academia, investment and public sector — told simply and without jargon. Your starting point to understand what it is about, and who is making it happen. An open, free PDF.
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You want to get into biotech, but you do not know where to start.
Everything sounds like insiders talking: technicalities, acronyms and jargon nobody explains. Getting in feels impossible.
It overwhelms
Papers, platforms, models, acronyms everywhere. You do not know what to read first or what truly matters.
It excludes
Jargon acts like a closed door: it feels like you must "already know" to take part.
It blocks
You do not know where to begin, so you do not begin. Doubt is not lack of talent: it is having no door in.
Every month you spend watching from outside, the ecosystem looks bigger — and you farther away.
42 stories that rebuild the questions.
A museum of the present: 42 of the people generating positive impact in the biotech ecosystem, told live as they do it. One story, one voice, one sector — simple and open.
You talk for 45 minutes
One conversation, once, recorded only to transcribe.
You share what you learned
About the pride and the lessons along the way.
We write it
We turn the conversation into a story with editorial care.
It lives in the PDF
An open, free document with criss-crossing perspectives.
The name comes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a supercomputer spends millions of years calculating the answer to life, the universe and everything, and answers "42" — but nobody remembers the question. Before solving, we ask.
A unique resource for the ecosystem — and something concrete for its protagonists.
For the whole ecosystem
- ✓ A simple document, with criss-crossing views from all five sectors.
- ✓ Free and open, to download and share.
- ✓ Peer learning, facilitated and without barriers.
- ✓ You save time: who does what, curated and at hand — no reinventing the wheel.
For the protagonists of the stories
- ✓ Their story written with editorial care and exhibited with permanence.
- ✓ The year edition, before anyone else.
Each sector reads it differently.
And everyone finds a story that speaks to them.
Curious people
Meet the players and their stories, first-hand.
Industry
Business or R&D decision makers, with ecosystem context.
Startups
Founders learning from peers who have already walked the path.
Academia
Scientists weighing whether to found, or who already did.
Investment
Map talent, stories and signals before deciding.
Public sector
Understand the ecosystem from within to improve it.
A museum that grows, edition after edition.
Each year a new edition of 42 stories is exhibited, with new faces and rotating sectors. We start in Latin America and go further: over the years the museum grows into a living human directory of the biotech ecosystem. Each volume opens and closes — and stays as part of the archive.
Four ways to help it reach further.
Anyone can join. You do not need to be a founder or a reference.
Nominate a story
Propose someone whose story is worth telling.
Share it
Spread it with the ready-made kit pieces.
Tell yours
You are in the ecosystem and want to take part: 45 minutes.
Propose ideas
Bring new ways to help it reach further.
Team transparency
- We do not send pitch decks to participants.
- We do not ask for money at any stage.
- We do not add you to lists without permission.
- Learning and network built on curiosity, asking nothing in return.
Choose your door in.
Do you want to be among the first to read the stories, or do you know someone whose story deserves telling? Two paths, two short forms.
I want to read the stories
Join the waitlist and we will let you know as soon as the 42 Historias BioTech PDF is out.
I want to nominate someone
Do you know someone in the ecosystem with a story of pride or learning? Recommend them: we handle the outreach.
A new question can open an entire conversation.
Join the PDF waitlist or recommend someone whose story deserves telling.
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