Jeff Bezos, who seems to be having a lot of fun ever since he left the helm of Amazon, is ready for a new amazing adventure. Buy Napoli, some say with the same credibility that we assign to fantasy football predictions. Extend our life by fifty years, say his latest investments; three billion dollars in Altos Labs, a Silicon Valley biotechnology startup that had already been talked about several months ago also because of its particular genesis (the party in a villa in Palo Alto of a Russian billionaire with several scientists).
In addition to the money Bezos, who is the majority shareholder of the startup, would have led the way by recruiting a pharmaceutical super manager. In short, they are serious (although it must be said that Bezos’ investment is less than 2 percent of his assets). Now extending people’s lives through a process of cell rejuvenation – this is what Altos Labs is about – is an ancient dream, it is not only the lengthening of life, it is eternal youth, it is more to stop time, it is to send hands backwards. A wonderful and terrifying prospect at the same time. Epper in these two years of pandemic closed at home, shielded by masks, without being able to get close to others, in these two years I believe that we have finally understood that the real problem we face is not adding years to life, but life to years.