I started with my wife, Ryan Phelan, who ran a biotech business called DNA Direct, and through her, one of her colleagues, George Church, one of the leading genetic engineers who turned out to be also obsessed with passenger pigeons and a lot of confidence that methodologies he was working on might actually do the deed.
Započeo sam sa svojom ženom, Ryan Phelan, koja je vodila biotehnološku tvrtku DNA Direct, i s jednim od njenih kolega, Georgeom Churchom, jednim od vodećih inženjera genetike, za kog se ispostavilo da je  opsjednut golubovima selcima, te uz mnogo vjere da bi metodologija na kojoj on radi ustvari mogla upaliti.