Periodic Labs considers hands-on people who work with scientists and automate laboratory machines essential to accomplishing its goals.

“he's in the lab so when we were doing some lab tours we were initially like oh this new scientist this new technician really looks like Ray and no it was literally this was Ray like actually in the lab with the scientists automating the machines and it's like this is sort of the the DNA and the type of people we need to kind of pull this off eventually”