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[His] father, who has a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry and owns his own lab in China, helped develop it.

I love the irony. Peter Thiel was trying to make a point with his "College Dropout Challenge", but this product was really developed by someone with a graduate-level education.

It's an inspiring message though;

    Anyone can drop out of school, find a partner,
    and start a business. 
I suppose with context it reads a bit differently though;
    Anyone can drop out of Harvard, take a expedition to
    Antarctica, meet a venture capitalist on the boat,
    and use your dad's PhD-level chemistry knowledge and
    infrastructure to start a business selling snake oil to
    gullible people.
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