Early Life
Ben Lamm was born on December 4, 1981, in Austin, Texas. He founded his first company while he was a senior at Baylor University. He pursued a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Finance and Accounting at Baylor University from 2000 to 2004. He also studied foreign languages, literature, and business at Universitat d'Alacant from 2000 to 2001.
Rise to Success
Lamm has founded and led several successful ventures. Some of his ventures include Simply Interactive, an e-learning software company (acquired by Agile in 2010); Chaotic Moon Studios, a mobile app company (acquired by Accenture in 2015); Team Chaos, a digital gaming company (acquired by Zynga in 2016); Conversable, a SaaS conversational bot technology (acquired by LivePerson in 2018); and Hypergiant Industries, a machine-learning artificial intelligence (acquired by Trive Capital in 2023).
Key Business Strategies
Lamm's key business strategies involve anticipating trends and ideas before they hit the market. He focuses on building and scaling innovative solutions to global challenges. Lamm's entrepreneurial journey has been marked by a series of successful company exits. In 2021, Lamm co-founded Colossal Biosciences with Dr. George Church. Colossal is focused on de-extinction and conservation biology, leveraging advanced CRISPR gene-editing technology.
Philanthropy
In October 2024, Lamm launched the Colossal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) investigation using Colossal Biosciences technology for species conservation globally, with a focus on biobanking.