Thoughts on working for a series A biotech in today's environment?

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Sure np

Like everything depends on the company. What's their funding like? What sort of BD are they focused on? What sort of deals would you be working on? Is it in an area of science that is hot, or an area that you're interested in? What's your personal risk tolerance for working at a company that is presumably far from anything clinically meaningful?

In a small company you'll be doing many different things - S&E, Transactions, alliance management to operational, strategy, etc. Do you want that sort of experience or something more defined?

1. You will never know about the funding situation
2. Get the experience and get out
3. Good luck

Thing is that #2 never comes to fruition for most people at these start up / early biotechs , where roles are not adequately scoped or is scoped to cover 5 different roles.
I interview ppl with this type of experience and the robustness or depth of the experience doesn’t happen
Hop from job to job & next thing you know they wanna ask you for a VP title or Director title, but their biotech experience was not strong

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