Vijay Pande
Vijay S. Pande is a Trinidadian-American scientist and venture capitalist who co-founded VZVC, a Bay Area venture firm focused on AI-driven healthcare, alongside Zack Werner in 2025. He previously served as a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he founded and led the firm's Bio + Health fund from 2014 until his departure in 2025. Pande is best known for creating Folding@home, the distributed computing protein-folding research project recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. He is also an adjunct professor of structural biology, computer science, biophysics, and chemistry at Stanford University.
“Vijay Pande says investors should 'root for the crash' in AI because a bubble burst would clear out inflated valuations, discipline feverish data-center spending, and leave behind the infrastructure and habits needed for a more durable AI economy.”
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