“ We have unusually strong marketing connections; Vitalik approves of us; Aella is a marketing advisor on this project; SlateStarCodex is well aware of us. We are quite networked in the Effective Altruism space. We could plausibly get an Elon tweet. ”
From the short investor spiel document. Also they want to just bypass the FDA?
There’s sneer in the pitchdeck about the FDA requiring 300 people healthy people with fully removable teeth isolated from others to trial this, as if it was the dumbest thing ever, instead of a reasonable precaution to introducing an unknown strain of bacteria into everyone’s mouths.