Chang Xu's guest appearances

Chang Xu

the bioinformatics chat

Kauffman Fellows Podcast

LA Venture

Astella Around The World

Rachel Springate

Marlon Nichols

Ben Marcus

Nicole Quinn

Leo Polovets

David Waxman

Andy McLoughlin

Andreessen Horowitz

Melody Koh

Ryan Hoover

Elizabeth Yin

Peter Lee

Rick Smith

Dan Abrams

Joe Robinson

OwlTail

Meet Chang Xu, Partner at Basis Set Ventures, where she focuses on developer-led products. What most excites her are opportunities where founders build a thesis around "raising the ceiling, and lowering the floor", to ease complexity or democratize access. She previously was a Principal at Upfront Ventures, the oldest and largest SoCal-based early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining Upfront, she was a founder and an operator. She was the first Product Manager at the Minerva Project, and she co-founded Onion Math, an ed-tech startup in China that has raised $90M to-date.If you are building something around scalable infrastructure, intelligent collaboration, automating workflow or autonomous machines, she invites you to apply to hypergrowth.network to access hundreds of mentors across GTM and engineering functions. She also invites you to access foundersuperpower.com to learn about concepts such as founder market fit. Tune in to learn more interesting data driven insights that can help you along your journey.

Meet <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/changx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chang Xu</a>, Partner at Basis Set Ventures, where she focuses on developer-led products. What most excites her are opportunities where founders build a thesis around "raising the ceiling, and lowering the floor", to ease complexity or democratize access. She previously was a Principal at Upfront Ventures, the oldest and largest SoCal-based early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining Upfront, she was a founder and an operator. She was the first Product Manager at the Minerva Project, and she co-founded Onion Math, an ed-tech startup in China that has raised $90M to-date. If you are building something around scalable infrastructure, intelligent collaboration, automating workflow or autonomous machines, she invites you to apply to <a href="hypergrowth.network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hypergrowth.network</a> to access hundreds of mentors across GTM and engineering functions. She also invites you to access <a href="foundersuperpower.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">foundersuperpower.com</a> to learn about concepts such as founder market fit. Tune in to learn more interesting data driven insights that can help you along your journey.

Chang Xu on investing in AI and automation developer led products at Basis Set Ventures

The best investors invest because of conviction, not because of consensus. The top investors have radical self-belief and a willingness to bet on themselves, especially when the odds seem stacked against them. Kauffman Fellows CEO Jeff Harbach sat down with Basis Set Partner, Chang Xu, to discuss how she developed radical self-belief and discovered her zone of genius as an investor.

The best investors invest because of conviction, not because of consensus. The top investors have radical self-belief and a willingness to bet on themselves, especially when the odds seem stacked against them. Kauffman Fellows CEO Jeff Harbach sat down with Basis Set Partner, Chang Xu, to discuss how she developed radical self-belief and discovered her zone of genius as an investor.

Radical Self-Belief: Chang Xu, Basis Set Partner, On Investing with Conviction (Not Consensus)

Chang Xu is a partner at $140M fund Basis Set Ventures.  We discuss everything from why open source is a good business model, how next gen infrastructure might look, what she learned at Upfront, and even practical advice for forming a startup board.

Chang Xu is a partner at $140M fund Basis Set Ventures.  We discuss everything from why open source is a good business model, how next gen infrastructure might look, what she learned at Upfront, and even practical advice for forming a startup board.

Chang Xu -- Basis Set Ventures

In this episode I’m joined by Chang Xu. Chang is a senior biostatisticianat QIAGEN and an author of smCounter2, a low-frequency somatic variant caller.To distinguish rare somatic mutations from sequencing errors, smCounter2relies on unique molecular identifiers, or UMIs, which help identify multiplereads resulting from the same physical DNA fragment. Chang explains what UMIs are, why they are useful, and how smCounter2 and othertools in this space use UMIs to detect low-frequency variants. Links:  smCounter2 preprint smCounter2 github repository smCounter publication Review of somatic SNV callers  If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the podcast on Patreon!

In this episode I’m joined by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chang-xu-7426a248/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chang Xu</a>. Chang is a senior biostatistician at QIAGEN and an author of smCounter2, a low-frequency somatic variant caller. To distinguish rare somatic mutations from sequencing errors, smCounter2 relies on unique molecular identifiers, or UMIs, which help identify multiple reads resulting from the same physical DNA fragment. Chang explains what UMIs are, why they are useful, and how smCounter2 and other tools in this space use UMIs to detect low-frequency variants. Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/03/14/281659" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">smCounter2 preprint</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/qiaseq/qiaseq-dna" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">smCounter2 github repository</a></li> <li><a href="https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-016-3425-4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">smCounter publication</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037017300946" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Review of somatic SNV callers</a></li> </ul> If you enjoyed this episode, please consider supporting the podcast on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bioinfochat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a>!