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Verily CEO Andy Conrad made a splash with his presentation on Alphabet’s life science’s company.

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Hello,

Welcome to our annual post-J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference edition of Dispensed, which is coming to you from a coffee shop in LA. I can use all the caffeine I can get after this week, and I’m looking forward to spending the weekend exploring the city and soaking up as much sun as I can before getting back to NYC next week.

I’m feeling so grateful for all the folks I got a chance to catch up with, all the new introductions, colleagues willing to get drinks at 4 p.m. so I can do happy hour and catch a flight, and all the story ideas that’ll keep me busy for at least part of 2020! Until next year, San Francisco.

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Last week, I mentioned we’d be spending our week in San Francisco running around the conference. It was my fifth time, and the first time I can remember that came and went without any ground-shaking news. Based on the conversations I had around the conference seems to be connected to the elephant in the room: the upcoming 2020 presidential election.