Jeff Bezos’s quest for immortality is building quite a crew.
This week, Altos Labs, the anti-ageing startup that the Amazon founder is betting a big chunk of his $200bn fortune on, revealed that it has poached Hal Barron, 59, one of the world’s most respected scientists, to be its chief executive. That alone shows Altos means business – but the Silicon Valley biotech start-up also revealed $3 billion in funding and added a board of directors brimming with Nobel laureates.
