Bay Area Biotech Arsenal Bio Lays Off Half Its Workers a Yr After Raising $325m
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Biotech company Arsenal Bio lays off half its workforce a year after raising $325M, sparking questions about the company's financial management and the biotech industry's sustainability.
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Bio tech seems like it often requires tons of iterations on an idea that take a very long time. Meanwhile start up land is often "nope that first shot didn't get any uptake, guess we're done".
Rough market for the 127 people laid off.