Comment · Wed, February 12, 2020
Is there a chance of viral contamination in any batches sent to you? If so, how is this addressed?
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johnnycoconut · 1 points
I know that there are standard ways to detect bacterial and fungal contamination in the lab. Do these or other methods work for viruses?
I am compelled to ask this by the novel coronavirus situation that's mostly in parts of China, but it's possible that anyone who's sick with even ordinary flu or the common cold at some lab somewhere could introduce contagious viruses by being sloppy. I don't know how well viruses survive in powders. I imagine it depends on the powder.
If there's already a post about this somewhere, I'd love to see it. I used the search function and didn't find anything relevant in this subreddit or recent comments by MYASD.
Thanks in advance.
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AromaticAminoAcid · 1 points
Wow so lots of customer service/marketing! Did you say you don't want to go public?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
No, we are pretty lean on the customer service and marketing side. Most of our employees are production and fulfillment, with admin following after that. We are very vertically integrated. So we do a lot of things in-house.
No reason to go public. People go public because they can't raise funding in traditional ways or can't self-fund. That, or they create a nonprofitable business that grows purely by market penetration. So going public allows them to cash out on their efforts. I think our modern VC-based way of creating companies is flawed, and I don't want to be a part of that. I think the old ways of slowly and steadily building a business with a solid foundation that grows if it is profitable, and fails if it is not, is a good way to go about things. Speculation is out of control these days. I don't want my businesses to be based on smoke and mirrors or venture capital. I want them to be based on solid business models that grow organically. Plus, I don't want to answer to anyone but myself and my customers. If I want to see a vision through to the end, I want to be able to do that without involvement from bean counters looking to make a quick buck.