4 years ago, former InfoSpace billionaire Naveen Jain launched Bellevue, Washington–based Viome, which sells a $119 “gut intelligence test” online. Jain says Viome has sold more than 100,000 kits and banked more than $15 million in revenue last year
with dietary recommendations “aimed at balancing your overall microbiome.” It might recommend, for instance, increasing consumption of “superfoods” like alfalfa sprouts and anchovies or avoiding green beans and kombucha. Jain says Viome has sold more than 100,000 kits and banked more than $15 million in revenue last year.
A nonstop talker prone to enthusiastic, stream-of-consciousness self-promotion, Jain immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1982 and worked at Microsoft from 1989 until 1996, when he founded InfoSpace, also in Bellevue, which delivered internet content to early cellphones. His net worth ballooned to $8 billion, then crashed to $220 million when the first internet bubble burst. A flood of shareholder suits followed, and theboard fired him as CEO in late 2002.
Caltech professor Sarkis Mazmanian. “The most rigorous clinicians and investors realize this is a long journey we’re on.” Mazmanian is carrying on their research in his sub-basement lab at Caltech, where 1,000 germ-free mice, delivered by Caesarean section in sterile conditions to ensure they are bacteria-free, live inside plastic-encased rectangular bubbles.
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