Biotech VC Bob Nelsen called it right on the coronavirus. Now he has thoughts on therapeutics — and masks
Bob Nelsen was right.
The co-founder and managing partner of Arch Venture Partners is one of biotech’s most successful venture capitalists. He’s also deeply wary of unchecked viruses, a fear he shares regularly with friends, family, and his Twitter followers. “Flu. Get shot. Get antivirals. Don’t die,” Nelsen tweeted right before Christmas.
Most people don’t worry about viruses the way Nelsen does, so when his tweets started to take on a much darker tone in January, I paid little attention. It was just Bob being Bob.
“Very scary,” he warned on Jan. 20, linking to a report of human-to-human transmission of a novel coronavirus in China. A day later, he likened the emerging outbreak to the video game Plague and said he was shorting airline stocks.
And then on Jan. 31, there was this
