My decision to create a new publication about health, medicine, and life sciences began to take shape during a dinner I attended in Boston during the summer of 2014, about a year after I had purchased The Boston Globe. Two dozen of us had been invited by Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, to discuss why Boston, which once had an opportunity to claim the mantle as the nation’s tech hub, had been eclipsed by Silicon Valley.
The talk soon turned to Massachusetts’ predominance in life sciences. I realized that while Boston and Cambridge were indeed the epicenter of life sciences, this fascinating world was not being covered by a serious, standalone news organization committed to the kind of in-depth journalism that has been a hallmark of The Boston Globe.
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