PinnedInDataDrivenInvestorbyLiran Belenzon·Mar 18, 2021How to Show Validation When You Have NoneOne of the most challenging skills to develop as a first-time entrepreneur is storytelling. Most startups I’m lucky enough to advise face…A response icon2A response icon2
PinnedLiran Belenzon·Jan 28, 2021How to Create and Communicate Strategy to Your StartupWhen our company grew from 30 to 60 people, I reached out to 10 CEOs of startups that grew their companies to around 500 people. I had one…
Liran Belenzon·Mar 22Inference as a Reagent: The Next Phase of Drug DiscoveryFor decades, a good measurement unit of effort in drug discovery was a physical reagent. If a scientist wanted to test a hypothesis, the…A response icon1A response icon1
Liran Belenzon·Mar 20Five Shifts Defining the Next Phase of Drug DiscoveryFor decades, drug discovery has followed a familiar pattern. Generate hypotheses. Run experiments. Analyze results. Repeat. Progress came…
Liran Belenzon·Jan 27The “Electric” Era of Biology: Why the New Bottleneck is Quality, Not IdeasAI is the new electricity. Just as the electrification of the early 20th century didn’t just give us better candles but fundamentally…
Liran Belenzon·Jan 18Founders, Friends, and the Hardest Decisions You’ll Ever MakeThere’s a topic in startups that almost no one talks about openly, mostly because it’s emotionally brutal and full of risk: founders.A response icon2A response icon2
Liran Belenzon·Jan 17AI in Drug Discovery: 10 Lessons from the Front Lines of BiopharmaOver the past six months, I’ve spent hundreds of hours in rooms where the future of biopharma R&D is being negotiated. From deep-dive…A response icon1A response icon1
Liran Belenzon·Dec 15, 2025I Turned Everything I Know About How to Create a Pitch Deck into a Gemini Prompt (Here It Is)There is a fundamental misunderstanding among founders about what a pitch deck actually is.
Liran Belenzon·Dec 9, 2025Hiring leaders: You can’t Interview Your Way to a Perfect MatchIn the last decade, I’ve hired many executives — some great, some deeply wrong for the company. The bad hires were detrimental to the…
Liran Belenzon·Nov 28, 2025The Only Two Signals That Actually Determine When to Raise CapitalStop obsessing over macroeconomics and start optimizing for narrative peaks and milestone gaps.A response icon1A response icon1
