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I'm the Co-founder and CTO of BillionToOne, one of the biotech companies profiled in the post.

We're recently opened up a position for a Staff Software Engineer (https://apply.workable.com/billiontoone/j/2F0405817C/).

If you're interested, please reach out to me directly at david+hn@billiontoone.com

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I'm a CTO as well and have been fascinated by biotech field. Could you please describe briefly what's it like to be CTO in biotech? What kind of problems do you solve?

Did you guys use a law firm to file your patents? How difficult was the process?

We used a law firm. The paperwork was quite straightforward because our attorney managed it.

Not parent, but have been involved in getting patents. The process itself is not that complicated, but it can be difficult to get a patent which has some value (very easy to end up with a worthless one). I recommend reading the Nolo book on patents, if only to help you understand what's going on, and help you select a good attorney.

https://store.nolo.com/products/patent-it-yourself-pat.html

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