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I’ve dreaded writing this post for a while, so please bear with me. As a CEO, I firmly believe business leaders should try to avoid taking a stand on political issues. Companies are a [...]

I’ve been building tech companies for the past 25 years and I have yet to see anything like what has occurred over the past few months with generative AI, and that means a lot given that [...]

About a dozen years ago, my wife and I set up a family foundation. Generally, we were focused on supporting four causes that we felt needed more attention: education, human rights, civic causes [...]

There has never been a more urgent time to harness and apply data science to help eradicate cancer. Why? For the first time, it is possible. We stand at the crossroads of two transformative [...]

The other day I read a letter written by my partner, Brad, to everyone at Uptake. In it, he referenced the power of asking yourself the most basic of questions, one of which was: “I wonder, [...]

The other morning I was listening to “Hurt” by Christina Aguilera. It’s a song about a daughter who loses her father and never got a chance to tell him how much he meant to her or how sorry [...]

We live in a complex world.   Technology is all around us, industries are evolving faster than ever, and the pace of innovation is almost daunting. It feels a bit like Ferris Bueller’s classic [...]

By Richard Sallari, Kevin White & Eric Lefkofsky Introduction Since the initial draft of the human genome was released in 2000, we have collected an unprecedented amount of genomic data as a [...]

By Eric Lefkofsky, Co-Founder and CEO @TempusLabs and Kevin White, President @TempusLabs This year roughly 50,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the United States. With the [...]

This past year, President Obama and Vice President Biden brought new energy to our country’s efforts to end cancer as we know it with the Cancer Moonshot initiative. The goal of Moonshot is [...]