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Set Sensible Metrics

Alice Zhang, Verge Genomics

Focusing on a distant goal right away can be discouraging. Verge Genomics founder and CEO Alice Zhang examines her early “number of drugs discovered” benchmark, and describes how more intermediate goals-for example, around technical accomplishments rather than completed products-sometimes make better benchmarks for young companies with long product development cycles.