FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024

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FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH 2024

Tuesday, July 16th, 2024

Park City, Utah

 

4:35 – 5:00 PM

ALOE BLACC: FROM MUSIC TO MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

What does a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter do for an encore? If you’re Aloe Blacc, you add “biotech entrepreneur” to your résumé. After contracting COVID-19 in 2022—despite up-to-date vaccinations—the “Wake Me Up” artist co-founded Major Inc. to figure out ways to block the transmission of infectious diseases, rather than fortify the body’s immune system to combat them. How is technology driving innovation in biotech? And where does music fit in? Blacc shares his story.

 

Aloe Blacc, Singer, Songwriter, Artivist; Co-founder and CEO, Major Inc.

Interviewer: Andrew Nusca, FORTUNE

 

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune

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