Beyond the Purpose

About Beyond the Purpose

The Beyond the Purpose podcast from BioX, a BioTalent company, explores the people, decisions and leadership stories behind scaling life sciences companies. What drives exceptional people to build, lead and scale life sciences companies, and what can we learn from them? Beyond the Purpose surfaces the human stories behind life sciences companies. We speak to the founders who built something from nothing, the operators who held it together under pressure, the investors who backed conviction over certainty and the scientists who turned discovery into real-world impact. Each conversation explores why people choose to build, how leadership accelerates performance, and what it actually takes to scale a company in one of life sciences' longest, most heavily regulated development cycles. Tune in for honest conversations with the people behind the science. This podcast channel also includes earlier episodes from BioTalent's original podcast series. Contact us at info@biotalent.com or visit our website at https://www.biotalent.com/our-solutions/biox

Publisher

BioTalent

Category

business · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Mar 2021

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

22 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Beyond the Purpose: Jordan Abdi on building a reproductive health biotech from scratch

   In this episode of Beyond the Purpose, hosts Jay Webster and James Cox are joined by Jordan Abdi, CEO of Uploid Biotechnologies, a company working on egg quality, one of the biggest unsolved challenges in fertility. A physician by training, Jordan explains why he moved from clinical medicine into building a company, and why infertility has attracted so little investment relative to the size of the problem. The conversation covers the science of egg quality and chromosome division in plain ter...

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Beyond the Purpose: Dr Linda McGoldrick on culture, storytelling and what makes a board excellent.

   In this episode of Beyond the Purpose, hosts James Cox and Jay Webster are joined by Dr Linda McGoldrick, a global healthcare and life sciences leader whose career spans more than three decades as CEO, board director and strategic advisor. The conversation explores the role of culture in building successful organisations, the value of mentorship, and why storytelling remains a leadership skill no technology can replace. Linda shares lessons on board leadership, career resilience, and access t...

3. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Beyond the Purpose: Murat Tunaboylu on funding, resilience and building for purpose

   In episode two of Beyond the Purpose, hosts James Cox and Jay Webster sit down with Murat Tunaboylu, CEO and co-founder of Antiverse, who brings almost a decade of experience building a tech bio company from the ground up. The conversation centres on the realities of scaling under pressure: the structured, criteria-led approach behind Antiverse's $9.3 million Series A, the personal toll of fundraising and founder life, and why radical transparency with his team has built trust rather than und...

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