$10b startup raises $200m & on track to bring back Wooly Mammoth in 2028

The answer the question in the tweet, it’s not bringing the animals back that is the business opportunity. It’s all the bio tech with lots of different applications they’ll need to develop along the way.

I wonder what they taste like

First you cook some rice

A fine Wooly Mammoth overcoat....

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I wonder what they taste like

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I think some scientist found a frozen one in Siberia that they ate some of the meat.

From Google...

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Rumors persisted for years that the expedition members ate some of the mammoth meat, but while we don't know exactly what happened, definitely no one actually sat down to have a yummy meal of mammoth steak. It turns out that the meat did look appetizing when thawed, but stank like old roadkill.

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Also google...

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No, people have not eaten frozen woolly mammoth, but there are stories that they have. In 1951, members of The Explorers Club in New York City were said to have eaten frozen mammoth meat, but a study later found that the meat was actually from a green sea turtle.

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They have raised a total of $435M, from TWG (Thomas Tull), Breyer Capital, Draper, Liquid2, Tony Robbins, Winklevoss, Animoca, Builders, Paris Hilton, HOF, Peak6, In-Q-Tel, Tudor and others

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WTF

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In-Q-Tel is the CIA's VC arm btw, Oracle, Palantir etc

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In-Q-Tel

Genetic engineering.

What could possibly go wrong?

I know one of the principals BTW. He is the sort of person who will either pull it off or leave a historically significant smoking crater.

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I wonder what they taste like

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In 1901, an expedition to the Beresovca River in Siberia found a male mammoth so exquisitely preserved that it still had grass in its mouth. The mammoth’s bones and skin were put on display in St. Petersburg, and its flesh was, supposedly, served at a “mammoth banquet.” The meal was a hit, according to one glowing account, ”particularly the course of mammoth steak, which all the learned guests declared was agreeable to the taste, and not much tougher than some of the sirloin furnished by butchers of today.”

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There are other instances where people have eaten frozen Wooly Mammoth.

Why not T-Rex, velociraptor or some huge flying bird - what could go wrong?