Landon Merrill is a venture capital partner at Genoa Ventures who worked as an overnight bread baker before becoming a bench scientist, then joined the founding team at 10x Genomics where he helped develop and launch their original platform technology. His investment approach draws from repeatedly building life science tools companies from the ground up rather than only evaluating them from the outside, combined with his background spanning clinical genomics infrastructure at Harvard, pharma discovery platforms at GlaxoSmithKline, and continued genetics teaching at UMass Boston.