Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Compass Pathways' George Goldsmith: "Medical magic mushrooms"
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:56:24
• Published: 2020-12-11 04:00

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Goldsmith to talk about how he started looking into psilocybin (3:45), its history of research (7:00), what he and his wife did before starting Compass (10:15), the 100 million people suffering treatment-resistant depression (14:15), launching the company (17:15), finding investors (18:45), being worth $800 million (23:00), what therapy looks like (26:20), patenting a natural substance (32:00), the legalisation movement (42:00), shooting for 2025 (44:30), his worst day of work (47:30), and building a business around an illegal drug (51:50).

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