You could be forgiven for thinking that Gabriel Otte, the CEO and cofounder of a well-funded biotech startup called Freenome, holds a PhD. Articles, conference programs, and other websites identify him as a PhD. Freenome’s website even identified him as “Gabriel Otte, PhD” — that is, until BuzzFeed News began asking questions about his degree, and the honorific disappeared last week. But he does not have a PhD.
Like many startup founders in Silicon Valley, Otte dropped out of school. In his case, he left a PhD at the University of
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/17/does-this-biotech-ceo-have-a-phd-the-answer-is-no-but-he-did-leave-school-under-a-cloud/
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