Lessons Learned: David Perry, from Chemdex to Anacor
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Six years ago, David Perry was one of the rock stars of the Web, the founding CEO of Chemdex-Ventro. He stuck with it as the company unraveled, shutting down most of the businesses he'd built, and merging the remainder into what is now an OTC-traded software company. Now he's applying the lessons he learned to his current company, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, a start-up which has discovered a small handful of now clinical-stage compounds.