I met Ben Lamm through a mutual friend when he came and sat down for dinner next to us and we ended up joining tables together. At the time the big news was his mammoth de-extinction project. He said that his business model was to essentially set up zoo exhibits and charge people to go see the mammoths. He also said that given how long the elephant gestation period is that it would take a while for the mammoth project to get going so they were looking at other de-extinctions they could do. I guess the dodo was one.

The zoo idea didn't seem to stack up to me and my friends so our consensus was his idea was to generate hype and exit, possibly licensing some of the tech developed along the way.