How Adina Mangubat built a software company for analyzing DNA (with no programming skills)

Adina Mangubat, Spiral Genetics, B2B, SaaS (software as a service), Scaling, Women Founders

In this interview, I’ve got the antidote to the kind of email I get from time to time, including one that I got this morning.

A member told me, “Andrew, I want to start a new company, but I don’t know how to program. I’m not a developer. Is that going to be a problem? It seems like lately you’ve been interviewing people who are all developers.”

Well, the antidote is today’s interview because today you’re about to meet a woman who created a genetics company with no background in programming.

Adina Mangubat is the founder of Spiral Genetics, a bioinformatics company that provides proprietary analytic software for the detection of genomic structural variants.

We’ll explain what the heck that means in this interview.

Adina Mangubat

Spiral Genetics

Adina Mangubat is the founder of Spiral Genetics, a bioinformatics company that provides proprietary analytic software for the detection of genomic structural variants.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart. That means this is a place where people who are aspiring to build incredible businesses and often actually are building incredible businesses come to listen to interviews with other top performers and they go to Mixergy.com to get courses taught by those entrepreneurs too.

In this interview, I’ve got maybe the antidote to the kind of email I get from time to time, including one that I got this morning. A member told me, “Andrew, I want to start a new company, but I don’t know how to program. I’m not a developer. Is that going to be a problem? It seems like lately you’ve been interviewing people who are all developers.”

Well, the antidote is in this interview because today you’re about to meet a woman who created a genetics company and to my knowledge, Adina, you’re not a geneticist,...

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