Elliot Hershberg is a venture investor at Not Boring Capital who maintains an active Stanford PhD in genomics while investing, making him a rare "working scientist–investor" rather than a former scientist who left the lab entirely. He runs The Century of Biology, a technical Substack that has become essential reading for founders and scientists, where his deal flow and investment theses connect directly to the companies and topics he features. Elliot Hershberg is a venture investor at Not Boring Capital who maintains an active Stanford PhD in genomics while investing, making him a rare "working scientist–investor" rather than a former scientist who left the lab entirely. He runs The Century of Biology, a technical Substack that has become essential reading for founders and scientists, where his deal flow and investment theses connect directly to the companies and topics he features.