He Turned Down Hundreds of Millions From Private Equity to Keep Control

Dr. Nathan Bryan is the founder and CEO of Bryan Therapeutics, a biotech building drugs that restore nitric oxide to treat heart disease, Alzheimer's, and wounds that won't heal. He spent 25 years as a professor of molecular medicine before turning his discoveries into companies. Steven Bartlett put him on The Diary of a CEO, and 84% of his website traffic now comes from people searching his own name. — CHAPTERS — 0:00 Intro 0:43 From Professor to Biotech Founder 3:00 What Nitric Oxide Does and Why You Lose It With Age 6:03 Turning a Gas Into a Pill 7:01 Why Most Beet Products Are Dead Beets 8:01 Turning Down Hundreds of Millions to Keep Control 10:03 The 5 Symptoms of Nitric Oxide Deficiency 14:21 Why AI Gets Medicine Wrong 19:42 What Keeps Him Going Through the Hardest Things 23:43 What His Father Taught Him About Perspective 25:40 Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire 32:20 Why the Healthcare System Is Failing 38:04 His Nobel-Winning Mentor and One Simple Business Rule 42:25 How He Competes Without a Big Ad Budget 47:20 Where to Find Nathan — GUEST — Dr. Nathan Bryan, Founder and CEO of Bryan Therapeutics N101: https://n101.com — LISTEN — Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7HMfYp3... Newsletter: https://margintheory.beehiiv.com Margin Theory: https://margintheory.co — FOLLOW — LinkedIn:   / realjakeerickson   — ABOUT — Margin Theory is a media brand and financial operating system for owner-operator businesses doing $1M to $20M. Newsletter, podcast, and community plus the fractional CFO and bookkeeping services that turn the system into outcomes. #MarginTheory #BusinessPodcast #FractionalCFO