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Designing psychedelic mindstates, with Mindstate Design Labs

Business Trip

English - February 10, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MB
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Today’s episode features Dillan Dinardo and Tom Ray, the co-founders of Mindstate Design Labs. Mindstate has a unique framework to design psychedelic compounds using what they call the “primer probe method.” This method involves combining a known psychedelic with a non-psychedelic compound. Mindstate just raised an $11.5M seed round.


In this episode, we discuss:

Tom and Dillan’s experience in YCombinator and raising an $11.5M seed roundTom’s friendship with the late psychedelic chemist Alexander ShulginMindstate’s lead programsThe role of mystical states in the healing process


Created by Greg Kubin and Matias Serebrinsky
Host: Matias Serebrinsky & Greg Kubin
Produced by Jonathan A. Davis & Zack Frank
Marketing by DaisyMae VanValkenburgh

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