Serial entrepreneur Larry Bock has confidence in nanotech.
When serial entrepreneur Larry Bock's Palo Alto startup, Nanosys, pulled its IPO a year ago this month, it helped to deflate financial interest in nanotech. But Bock, Nanosys's chairman, says his confidence in nanotech's future has not diminished.
Skeptics call nanotech a great collection of small markets with no killer app. That's probably true in the short term, but even three years out, some of the things we'll see will be monumentally world changing.
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