In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Dr. Giacomo Vacca, founder and CEO of Kinetic River Corp, shares the remarkable journey that took him from a physics PhD at Stanford under a Nobel Prize winner to building a biophotonics company from his home office in Mountain View, California. Holder of 82 patents and inventor of laser rastering, a technique that increased the throughput of a foundational cancer research technology by a factor of 30, Giacomo left a prestigious research fellowship at Abbott Labs to pursue his own vision in flow cytometry and nanoparticle analysis. Kinetic River's instruments are now installed at institutions including the National Cancer Institute, the NIH, leading research universities, and sites in Taiwan, supporting both diagnostic and biomedical research applications.

The conversation explores Giacomo's delib ...