
The Future is Texas
"This is real—everything I’m about to tell you is real,” said Ben Lamm. The billionaire serial founder known for his grand pronouncements and wavy mane of brown hair sat at the edge of a sofa in the posh Austin Proper hotel, located in a downtown high-rise across from Meta’s local headquarters in one direction and a soaring Google skyscraper in another. He fired up a presentation on his laptop. The news he was set to announce—that his Dallas-based company, Colossal Biosciences, had resurrected a seemingly mythical species...